Guest jbtilley Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 I just found this site today. I haven't had the opportunity to put in the driver with the custom ini file, but I thought I might ask here to see if this is something common or fixable. First I got no picture from TV-Out. I was using the most recent nVidia driver from www.nvidia.com. Now I realize that the standard nVidia drivers at their website do not support geForce2 go video cards. After hours of searching I came across the official driver on portables.toshiba.com. It is older (10/2001). Installing it allowed me to see a picture on my TV, but displays it in black and white. I am using the driver for XP/2000. I know for a fact that there is nothing wrong with the cable, as I have used the same cable with my CPU and got it to work perfectly. I think I'm standing on firm ground in saying that it is the driver that is giving me the problems. I have looked around and it seems like the pins are not being configured right. It seems like a black and white image can occur when the TV is looking for the color from one pin in the s-video cable and the laptop is spitting the color out to a different pin. There are only three options to change pin configuration using the current driver - I have tried all of them. Not having the laptop with me it is hard to remember. I think they are B/PAL (UK), NTSC-j, NTSC-(some other letter). I'm sure I could get it working the way it should if I just had more options - ie. pin configurations. Do these mods include more pin configurations? Will one help me? Is this a common problem? Will I have to just live with it? Am I stupid? Toshiba 3000-S304/Windows XP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 jbtilley, I looks like your getting NTSC picuture on a PAL only TV (or viseversa). In my modded INFs under the TV properties there is a section to choose what country your in, and selects the right output (NTSC, PAL). Have a look in here, Or try a program called TV-tool, a very handy program for anybody doing a lot of TV-out work. Hope this helps, Pieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jbtilley Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 I've been reading up on this like an addict today. Seems like some people are getting solutions buy changing the tv-out(put) from s-video to composite. It sounds like this will work for me. I remember that <i>not</i> being an option for the official driver. Is that an option for your modded one? I hate to just ask, but the laptop is at home (crap net connection), and for me to do any meaningful experimentation I would need to cart the laptop to work, thus losing another couple of days on this silly problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jbtilley Posted January 9, 2004 Report Share Posted January 9, 2004 Turns out I put it all on a CD and took it home. No luck whatsoever. I'm still thinking it is a s-video/composite problem. Bringing in the old CPU does the trick. Same cable, same setup, but with color. Go figure. Looks like something I will just have to live with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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