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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: tyweed on July 06, 2003, 03:37:46 pm

Title: 32" rca says unusable signal everytime i start it any ideas?
Post by: tyweed on July 06, 2003, 03:37:46 pm
everytime i start my computer in my cabinet then with my tv remote turn on my tv it goes to the s-video screen but says unusable signal. in order to get video i hit input on the remote which turns it to chanel 3 then i hit input again and it works?  i don't understand why it does not recieve the s-video signal the first time. it needs to be refreshed to get it to grab the video from the computer. i have a radeon 7500 with s-video connected anyone have this problem.or know a fix i can try
Title: Re:32" rca says unusable signal everytime i start it any ideas?
Post by: J_K_M_A_N on July 06, 2003, 10:42:44 pm
I have a 27" tv with the same problem. It uses the same channel for both composit and s-video. Whichever signal it is getting, it uses. It defaults to composit first so if there is no signal from s-video and no signal from composit it shows nothing even if a signal starts to come from s-video. If, while it shows nothing, you give it a signal from composit, I bet it would show the picture from that.  About the only thing I can think of to do is somehow delay the power to the tv until the computer is giving a signal from the s-video. I am not sure how you can do that but maybe someone here can. Good luck.

J_K_M_A_N
Title: Re:32" rca says unusable signal everytime i start it any ideas?
Post by: AlanS17 on July 07, 2003, 01:03:56 am
I got an idea. Mail it to me I'll tell you if I can get it working or not. It'll only cost you a 32" TV.  ;D j/k

Sorry, I really can't help you out there.
Title: Re:32" rca says unusable signal everytime i start it any ideas?
Post by: SirPeale on July 07, 2003, 10:47:28 pm
What happens when you wait just a bit?  I've got an RCA TV that does the same thing.  I just wait a few seconds, and it comes up with the BIOS screen okay.

Now, what I DO find annoying about this TV is if the signal degrades even just a hair, I get the 'Unusable Signal' screen.  I had to attach my NES to another TV as it would flash this about every five seconds, rendering games unplayable (well, not unplayable, but extremely distracting...)
Title: Re:32" rca says unusable signal everytime i start it any ideas?
Post by: Generic Eric on July 08, 2003, 03:27:13 am
Go to The Rage 3D forum. (http://rage3d.com/board/) They talk about ATI cards there.