TV Displays Only Black and White When Switching From Laptop to TV

Question

I have an Inspiron 8500 with a GeForce4 4200 Go video card and have updated the latest driver and bios, but when I try and throw my laptop to the TV, the TV only displays in black and white.  I had this working prior to shipping my laptop to Dell where they replaced the system board and seems to have reset something on the graphic card that is forcing the TV to display in monochrome.  I have tried changing the advanced settings on the display properties for the TV but I either get monochrome, a blank screen or a flickering screen (also in monochrome).    I have also noticed that sometimes when I open and close the display properties the area that is displayed when the start button is pressed is all blacked out and I have to re-boot the machine to get to All Programs.  This may or may not be related to the monochrome problem.   Any ideas what could have changed or what I need to do to fix?

squelch41 · Answer

Is your laptop set to the correct TV system (Pal or NTSC)? squelch41

wra066 · Answer

I have tried both settings and they both display in black and white.  How do I determine which is the correct setting?

squelch41 · Answer

If you are in europe, you probably want PAL unless you are in the old eastern bloc or France where you will want SECAM. If you are in the US, you want NTSC. squelch41

Technikus · Answer

I got the same problem these days. The TV-display is only black and white after the driver update. The update came withe the automatic Windows-Update. After installing the previous video-driver-version the TV-display works correct/fine again. (Now the Windows-Update detects the old driver and wants to intall the new nvidia-driver again :-(

I don't know why there is a problem with the new driver. I only know the solution to install the previous driver. Is there anyone who knows why the new driver doesn't work with PAL TV?

What has been changed to the actual version?

Thanks for your answers,

Technikus

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