Can not enable TV-out with Radeon 7000 PCI

[Csquared]

Kindly folks,

I have installed this new ATI video card in 2 different MoBos: an ABit (KT7,
I think) with 2Ghz Celeron, and an ASUS-A7V with 800MHz AMD Athlon; and can
not get it to let me enable the TV-out feature. I have tried resolutions
from 640x480 through 1024x768 with all combinations of colors and clicked
"Apply" each time I made a change without success. Forcing a refresh rate
of 60Hz does not seem to help either. There is always a red X over the
connector where I should be able to enable the TV-output. I only had 1
ordinary VGA monitor connected to the card at the time. The DVI connector
is not being used at all.

I did briefly install it in an old test PC (233 MHz Pentium) and was able to
enable the TV-out feature. However, when I connected the TV-out jack to a
VCR, I was unable to record anything - I suspect due to the ancient BIOS in
that Mobo.

I checked the archives, but could not find anyone else with this problem.

 

[wolfenstajn]

i have the same problem but with Abit R9200SE (Epox barebone, P4 2.4.,
512 MB RAM). You should also try connecting it to TV via S-Video to
Cinch adapter. I think tv-out connector has more pins on S-Video than
e.g. standalone DVD players.

Still, all this including resolution/refresh rate change, did not help
me either.

 

[Csquared]

i have the same problem but with Abit R9200SE (Epox barebone, P4 2.4.,
512 MB RAM). You should also try connecting it to TV via S-Video to
Cinch adapter. I think tv-out connector has more pins on S-Video than
e.g. standalone DVD players.

Still, all this including resolution/refresh rate change, did not help
me either.

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately this video card has only an RCA
(composite video) TV-out connector, and no S-Video connector is
available.

I found a detailed install procedure and a driver download on ATI's web
site yesterday. Perhaps if I go through all of that it might solve the
problem. I am basing this guess on some comments I have seen elsewhere
in the postings of this newsgroup regarding ATI drivers.