Have tried every driver under the sun in the last 2 weeks. Still black and
white on my tv. I miss XP already

If you are getting B&W TV over a S-video connection it is because you have
let Vista automatically determine the connection interface insteead of
manually saying it is S-Video and in automatic mode it does not sense the
correct electircal impedence over S-Video from your display so it downgrades
the output to B&W.
Another possibility is that you have a faulty S-video cable or connector
which is only allowing the B&W signal to come through
"Rob and Sonja Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:06081131-26FA-4396-AF85-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Have tried every driver under the sun in the last 2 weeks. Still black and
> white on my tv. I miss XP already

I have the same problem as Rob, but I can't find the place to tell Windows
Vista to manually saying that the used output is S-Video. My videocard is an
nVidia and I use nVidia control panel to adjust the oputput, but still have
it in black and white.
Any suggestion?

Thank you!

"JW" wrote:

> If you are getting B&W TV over a S-video connection it is because you have
> let Vista automatically determine the connection interface insteead of
> manually saying it is S-Video and in automatic mode it does not sense the
> correct electircal impedence over S-Video from your display so it downgrades
> the output to B&W.
> Another possibility is that you have a faulty S-video cable or connector
> which is only allowing the B&W signal to come through
> "Rob and Sonja Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:06081131-26FA-4396-AF85-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Have tried every driver under the sun in the last 2 weeks. Still black and
> > white on my tv. I miss XP already
>
>
>

I forgot to say that if I enter the BIOS, the image shows in colour, but when
Vista boots, it is in black and white, so it can't be becouse of the clable,
can it?

"JW" wrote:

> If you are getting B&W TV over a S-video connection it is because you have
> let Vista automatically determine the connection interface insteead of
> manually saying it is S-Video and in automatic mode it does not sense the
> correct electircal impedence over S-Video from your display so it downgrades
> the output to B&W.
> Another possibility is that you have a faulty S-video cable or connector
> which is only allowing the B&W signal to come through
> "Rob and Sonja Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:06081131-26FA-4396-AF85-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Have tried every driver under the sun in the last 2 weeks. Still black and
> > white on my tv. I miss XP already
>
>
>

You are right its not the cable. What release of what Vista driver for which
NVIDIA graphics card are you using?

"Gakubuchi "MSX"" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:524CFBB8-7387-4461-9A65-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I forgot to say that if I enter the BIOS, the image shows in colour, but
>when
> Vista boots, it is in black and white, so it can't be becouse of the
> clable,
> can it?
>
> "JW" wrote:
>
>> If you are getting B&W TV over a S-video connection it is because you
>> have
>> let Vista automatically determine the connection interface insteead of
>> manually saying it is S-Video and in automatic mode it does not sense the
>> correct electircal impedence over S-Video from your display so it
>> downgrades
>> the output to B&W.
>> Another possibility is that you have a faulty S-video cable or connector
>> which is only allowing the B&W signal to come through
>> "Rob and Sonja Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:06081131-26FA-4396-AF85-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Have tried every driver under the sun in the last 2 weeks. Still black
>> > and
>> > white on my tv. I miss XP already
>>
>>
>>