CRT rca to vga troubles

[cipriani2k]

Upon hooking up my vga to rca cable, my monitor is resembling a sort of black and white chopped up version of my desktop. Are there any cheap way to go about fixing this problem? My graphics card isnt great by any means, and its not supported in soft15khz. I have a base understanding of the problem and the only thing i can think of is a converter. Any alternatives for my situation Id be willing to give a shot. Id prefer not to get a new graphics card if possible.

[cipriani2k]

Its not actually even a dedicated graphics card i guess, its a intel 82865g graphics controller if that helps.

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel865g/sb/CS-009178.htm

[RayB]

Read the Wiki about this! PC's output 31khz (or is it hz?) signals. Arcade monitors take 15. You are damaging your monitor.

[cipriani2k]

Im aware of the whole 15khz for arcade monitors but this is just a regular tv im talking about.

[speedklz]

What are you using to adapt the VGA to the tv?

[cipriani2k]

http://www.gainbery.com/Product/Adaptor/VGA%20to%20TV%20Converter.htm

Im using this here, im using the rca end for the tv. Im thinking at this point that the video card just isnt helping me enough and might just upgrade it, i have an extra nvidia 9600 gs so maybe ill just buy some cheap parts and fill in the gaps. I believe it has decent tv out options on it.

[MonMotha]

That adapter is designed for certain laptops that support output of TV on their HD15 connector only.  It won't work with a normal desktop card or even most laptops.

[cipriani2k]

is there a cable you guys would recommend for general desktop use or does that not really exist?

[Forces21]

Hate to tell you but unless you have an rca output or svideo output you're well out of luck with your video card. The only solution would be to use a VGA to RCA convertor, but I don't think these are cheap cheap!

Shame you're not in europe otherwise you could make a VGA to SCART adapter, but you'd still need to have something like soft15khz running...

Maybe cheapest solution would be to get a cheap graphics card with TV/OUT. Then you could connect this to the TV?
I assume this is a desktop and not a laptop you are trying to use?

Just throwing some ideas at you though so use what you need.

Cheers


Carl

[RayB]

Im aware of the whole 15khz for arcade monitors but this is just a regular tv im talking about.

SAME THING!

[ark_ader]

Get a Magic VGA

[cipriani2k]

Get a Magic VGA

haha, Ill be trying your idea first.

[cipriani2k]

but ya, im trying my nvidia card tomorrow so hopefully soft15khz will work with that and then my troubles will be solved. heres to hoping

[DJ_Izumi]

Someone wanna tell me why Soft15khz is even necessary for using a CRT TV on a Nvidia graphics card?  Nearly every modern graphics card that is not built into the mobo features S-Video/Composite output, all controlled by the graphics card.

[Level42]

Because S-video looks like ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- and composite video is even worse.

Soft15kHz (or an ArcadeVGA card) allows you to connect RGB video which is the ultimate in picture quality.


Oh, and this belongs in the Monitor section....

[DJ_Izumi]

Because S-video looks like ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- and composite video is even worse.

Soft15kHz (or an ArcadeVGA card) allows you to connect RGB video which is the ultimate in picture quality.


Oh, and this belongs in the Monitor section....

Yeah but Soft15khz isn't gonna help him connect the PC to TV as appears to be his goal.

[Level42]

In his initial post he mentions monitor. Didn't see it was actually a TV later on. If he's in Europe, he still will have a great monitor through his SCART connection.

However, for a US TV you are absolutely right.