TV is in Black and White only

[Nacimroc]

I bought this video card below:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370455671141&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_1572wt_1139

I have it connected via S-video lead to a regular old 21 inch CRT TV.  It works fine except that its only showing up in Black and white. This happened to me in my last cab but I can't remember how I fixed it. 

The tv works perfect except it is only in Black/white.  Its a PAL TV and the s-video lead is plugged into one of those scart connectors thingys with the video phono jacks on the back (connected to yellow)

Thanks for any help!

[SirPeale]

Bad cable, probably.  I bet one of the pins has broken off.

[gazz292]

setthe tv to S-video input,

problem is standard scart is set up for RGB and composite input, S-video is put in using the composite pins and another pair... so if you feed S-video to a composite input, it only gets the luma part of the signal, which gives you black and white.

[Nacimroc]

I think thats exactly what it is! I spoke to a guy who repairs TV's also and he said the TV I have probably has no S-video capabilities. I was using the scart adapter. No harm as I have a newish TV also.

Thanks for help.

[BLASTEROO]

IMO you should forget the s-video connection and go for scart if you have it available.

The image quality is amazing, crispy and detailed.

[Nacimroc]

But its comming out of my graphics card. It only has vga and S-video out. I tried a diff TV and same so I'm bought a few adapters on fleabay last night. s-video to composite leads

[BLASTEROO]

You can connect the VGA output from your graphics card directly to your TV Scart socket via a VGA to Scart cable.

This is the best signal/image you'll ever get, RGB.

You'll need to use a program such as soft 15 kHz or power strip, so your graph card can output 15 kHz that is suitable for your TV.