I'm concerned about cables' construction quality, because the symptoms you describe could be due to poor connections on colour and/or sync signals.
I'd like to know the pinout for that cable. For example, how do they send the RGB switching signal to pin 16?
I don't suppose that you could open it up and take photos each side so we can see the pinouts (and whether some wire connections are falling off)?
Is there anywhere you can buy a proper vga to scart as I presume its the cable thats the problem.
Phew...
Over here in Germany theres only one shop I know of that sells those cables.
( http://www.wolfsoft.de/shop/product_info.php/products_id/12836/%3Cbr%20/%3E )
Like I said, you won't find those cables premade anywhere. (The ones at wolfsoft are handmade too)
Maybe you find someone at your location who can solder you one.
HI Sailorsat,
Got the cable delivered today.
I tried what you told me and am still getting a flickering on the TV, I can see the desktop but it is red and flickery .
I tried messing around with resolutions but not sure what I should be doing.
Just to refresh its a radeon 9250 pci card and a philips tv with scart.
Any suggestions.
Thanks.
Thanks for the reply Zebidee.
The picture gets better as I mess around with the res.
The way I have my cab setup at the moment is through the TV so I am not using the PC monitor at all.
Just to run you quickly through what I did.
Have a radeon 9250 pci 128mb card installed.
Ran soft 15khz (on the primary card) set the resolution to 600x480
Rebooted the machine, connected the scart to vga and I can see the desktop but it flickers slowly down the screen.
Just another thing on this, the vga-scart cable has a usb cable coming from the scart end which has to be connected or I get no picture at all, there is also 2 audio connections coming off this.
Cheers.
I can open the scart when I get home and take some pics if it would help.
I hope its not my card as I bought this and the cable especially for the cab.