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Need help with setting 480i
Tinydane:
If i am connected via Svideo and extend the desktop it works fine.
If I use that connector in your picture (which did come with my card) i get a signal from the svideo on the card to the component on the tv but the picture is all blue like super blue.
If I disconnect the svideo and try to use the dvi out on the card to the component on the tv I get a message that no signal is detected. If i go into the CCC GUI and choose detect displays it then finds a new display (not the previous tv display it found using svideo) and thinks its a monitor.
I started randomly messing around with powerstrip lastnight and chose the 640x480i arcade resolution from the list but that didnt change anything. I then just started randomly modifying the refresh rate on the horizontal and when I kicked it down to 15 i got a bunch of thin purple lines flashing across the screen. As I lowered it even more they slowed down to a more constant flicker so somethign was trying to get to the tv on that line but it wasnt any sort of stable signal.
I never could find any refresh rate combination to make it turn into a solid screen display though.
So to recap: straight svideo works but is crappy quality. Using svideo to component adapter gives a signal but its all blue colored everything. And using DVI to component doesnt really do squat except for some wavy lines I got when lowering the refresh in powerstrip to 15 or lower.
Eversynth:
--- Quote from: Tinydane on February 13, 2009, 11:29:05 am ---If I use that connector in your picture (which did come with my card) i get a signal from the svideo on the card to the component on the tv but the picture is all blue like super blue.
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This could be either from a wrong connection (I don't think, unless you connected the yellow end too) or from the video card outputting another signal instead of component. Take a look in the Catalyst control center, under the TV controls if you can change signal type or if it is already sending component.
--- Quote ---I started randomly messing around with powerstrip lastnight and chose the 640x480i arcade resolution from the list but that didnt change anything. I then just started randomly modifying the refresh rate on the horizontal and when I kicked it down to 15 i got a bunch of thin purple lines flashing across the screen. As I lowered it even more they slowed down to a more constant flicker so somethign was trying to get to the tv on that line but it wasnt any sort of stable signal.
I never could find any refresh rate combination to make it turn into a solid screen display though.
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I don't think you can just open powerstrip and change only the refresh, I think it's more complex than that.
If you want to try 15khz modes the easy way would be to use soft15khz, with the custom15khz.txt for newer ati cards.
You can enable soft15khz only on the secondary port too.
I don't have a 4350 at hand, but if you are still trying to make it work tomorrow then I can connect a 1650xt to component using the adapter provided and write up a post on how to do it step by step.
Tinydane:
Yea not sure whats up with the all blue display when using their svideo to component adapter. I even tried two different component cables. On a side note..the component cables dont have any yellow connectors. Its the red/green/blue cable.
I'll definitely load up the soft15khz software (assuming I can find it and give that a shot). I tried looking for some more information on what exactly powerstrip is doing but havent had much luck. I'm not sure if or why 15khz refresh even means anything. Thats just the only refresh rate that sent at least some life to the tv...although what it sent still was just horizontal lines scrolling vertically up.
BTW..Eversynth..thanks a ton for the assistance on this. Something tells me I"ll still be underwater with this come tomorrow so any help now or later is always appreciated. Let me mess around witht he soft15 today and see what it does for me.
Tinydane:
Ok so I found the soft15khz pinned thread in this forum..wasnt too hard to find.
Saddly though I dont quite get what i'm supposed to be doing. I run the executable and my graphics card shows up twice (i'm assuming once for the monitor once for the tv) but all the buttons are greyed out/disabled. What am I supposed to be loading?
Is there a master txt file of some sort I am missing that I need to load?
Eversynth:
--- Quote from: Tinydane on February 13, 2009, 04:17:43 pm ---Ok so I found the soft15khz pinned thread in this forum..wasnt too hard to find.
Saddly though I dont quite get what i'm supposed to be doing. I run the executable and my graphics card shows up twice (i'm assuming once for the monitor once for the tv) but all the buttons are greyed out/disabled. What am I supposed to be loading?
Is there a master txt file of some sort I am missing that I need to load?
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When that happens it's because of 2 things:
1) Card not supported
2) Drivers version
It's probably number 2. Now what to do:
- Download the oldest catalyst possible for your card (Catalyst 7.11)
- Go to C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\UninstallAll and launch the uninstall application.
- Reboot
- Install the 7.11 drivers, then reboot.
- create a txt file, past the following content and rename it "custom15khz.txt":
--- Code: ---;Remove some "too low" resolutions
remove 240x240
remove 256x240
remove 256x256
remove 256x264
remove 321x256
;ReAdd some "low" resolutions with higher pclock and (way) larger sync width
modeline '288x240@59.885' 7.12 288 332 392 448 240 243 246 265 -hsync -vsync
modeline '296x240@59.941' 7.12 296 338 392 448 240 243 246 264 -hsync -vsync
modeline '304x240@59.305' 7.12 304 344 392 448 240 243 246 264 -hsync -vsync
modeline '321x240@59.014' 7.12 321 350 392 448 240 242 245 264 -hsync -vsync
modeline '336x240@59.749' 7.12 336 356 392 448 240 243 246 264 -hsync -vsync
--- End code ---
- Place the .txt file in the same folder as soft15khz. Launch Soft15khz. Select the secondary output (it's the DVI port, NOT the tv-out). Then click only the 15khz button. Set the DVI-output resolution to 640x480 and reboot again.
To know if soft15khz is working:
If you attach a PC monitor to the output port configured with soft15khz, and the PC monitor says that the signal is "out of range", or if the PC monitor reports the frequency (mine does) as 15.something, it's working.