Nvidia 7300GT SOLVED now onto setting colours ! help please :D

[david656]

it was working fine on the PC monitor until i went to put the PC back into the arcade machine and view the picture on the tv screen, thats when the problems started and now i cannot view it on anything except  in saftey mode on the PC monitor

is there a way to sort the settings out with out re-installing everything ?

PS i am using a stripped down version of XP which i haven't seen working with the TV BUT i know the full version of xp works fine..


thanks

[Carlito]

check windows display settings to make sure it's using that cards output as primary display

[david656]

thanks for the input but its the drivers at fault i think

im using this mobo http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?detailid=555&CategoryID=1&DetailName=Driver&MenuID=48&LanID=9 

nothing exciting i know BUT it did work fine for months so whats the deal ?

if someone can tell me which driver to get / need because theres all these fancy force ware and summit else http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-uk

i have re installed XP and the latest drivers and as long as you don't do anything bar connect it to a PC monitor its happy ! well im sorry but i didn't splash out on this piece o' crap to connect it to a F*ing PC monitor

i am now re installing XP AGAIN any help would be much apreciated


edit: im now getting catalogue errors on re installing XP so the RAM's probably dead now maybe the hard drive too just for the fun of it.... i might as well bin it now and give up

[Kevin Mullins]

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winxp_2k_94.24_uk.html
Should cover it.

May want to see if you can disable the onboard video to avoid conflicts if need be.

[david656]

ok cheers but if i cannot get XP back on it then im kinda stuck !

as Elvis in bubba ho-tep said "that would be just so much crap"

[david656]

Mr Mullins you seem to of sorted it ! After going to the local maplins and getting ripped of at £40 for a 40gb HDD and sulking about it on the way home i got the antistatic strap and as carefully and politically correct as possible shuved the new HDD in that funilly enough seemed to be near identical to the 7 year old WD that was in there ! and installed XP the mobo drivers and that graphics driver... at the moment with a PC monitor and another TV plugged in over S-Video it seems to be quite happy except the bios screen and XP loading screen is black and white ! little odd... im still fiddling with getting mame on there again but once i have will connect it up to the correct TV and see what results i get :D

 

[david656]

hi the problem was the hard drive and the new one is running like a dream and surprisingly a lot faster !

what can i use to correct the colours as the more i adjust the more washed out the colours become !

[Kevin Mullins]

So are the colors bad on the PC monitor or the TV (s-video) ?