How can i get my computer to work on a tv screen

[roberts123]

I have a tv screen that i am trying to get my arcade machine to work on. I have used CCC and Powerstrip and i can't seem to get a clear picture but when i do the picture is way to big and i can't get it to the right size withhout it going to big or getting a clear screen. If anybody can help it would be very helpful. Thank you.

[Jack Burton]

The reason you can't see the whole screen is because part of it is being hidden by the overscan.

Read up on television overscan.

Also you will need to enter your television's service mode to correct this.

[DJ_Izumi]

Define 'clear'?  Because even on component or S-video, the Windows desktop is going to look blurry on a TV screen.

[roberts123]

I mean clear as in chopped up all over the place. And okay on the television overscan.

[DJ_Izumi]

Okay I can't even relate 'chopped up all over the place' with 'not a clear picture'.  How about you take a picture?

[roberts123]

Yea i can take a picture and here is a picture of my tv screen.

[Kevin Mullins]

How are you connecting your "television" to your video card ?

What resolutions are you trying to run it at ?

[DJ_Izumi]

Oh wow, that looks like all kinds of 'not right'.

You say you're using the CCC so I assume ATi.  I've connected lots of ATi cards to TVs but I have never seen that sorta output, with or without the overscan button pushed.  I'm gonna venture a guess that there's a hardware problem with the card.  I suggest trying the same on a different ATi card.

[Jack Burton]

That looks like a monitor being overdriven.

Does it make a high pitched whine sound?

I suggest you try lower resolutions.  

Alternatively you may have your sync lines messed up.

[DJ_Izumi]

That looks like a monitor being overdriven.

Does it make a high pitched whine sound?

I suggest you try lower resolutions.  

Alternatively you may have your sync lines messed up.

But that's not a monitor, that's a television over S-Video or Composite.  He shouldn't even be able to overdrive a TV.  The way that's messed up too, I doubt the TV is doing that the graphics card is putting out garbage.  The garbaging reminds me of when graphics cards start to overheat or have memory errors.  However just working without overscan shouldn't be stressing the card.

[roberts123]

I have got the TV to work just right for Mame!!! McCoy let me use his computer to see what he had downloaded that i haven't so i looked in his program files for about 10 minutes and found this file called ATI Omega XP so i downloaded it just because it said ATI on it and that's the software i had been using.Once i installed it and restarted the computer the screen came on but it still was a little big so i went to ATI CCC and adjusted a few things and now it works great. Thank you McCoy!!

[mccoy178]

No problem!  Now give me my baby back!