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my old graphics card died so instead of buying a 2nd hand one again i brought a new nvidia 256mb geforce fx 5500 agp card as i was happy with my old nvidia card so that's why i got this one. its connected by s-video to scart(i'm in the UK)this worked fine on my old card that was connected to the tv in my cab but this time it only displays a black & white picture i've messed around with all the settings,checked cables, google'd the problem and found a few things but still no luck has anyone got any ideas please
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got it to finally come on with colour by totally uninstalling all drivers and reinstalling them again colour just appeared half way through installation of the drivers so i was happy
then restarted pc and its black&white again wtf?
try'd this a few times and got it to stay with the colour then restarted it again and its b&w again
HELP this is doing my head in
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No doubt you've already tried this, but I'd go back and and check the old drivers are really *GONE*. I think there are "clean-up" utilities that will uninstall old graphics drivers for you better than the automatic uninstall via windows add/remove.
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thanks bloodyviking77 i found this
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-28328-How-to-wipe-out-or-clean-video-memory.html
i followed every thing it said but still no luck
i was quite happy with my old nvidia geforce mx 400 card this worked fine with a tv but it was the second one that died on me within 6 months so i thought i'd get a new card(at least you get a years warranty) i think i'll just get a second hand one the same as the old one now as i've wasted 3 nights trying to sort this one out :angry
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Are you doing the inital set-up on a PC monitor?
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make sure the video output is set to PAL or whatever you tv is
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I'm doing the initial set on my TV i also plugged a monitor in and had it on clone its set to the correct format i/pal coz I'm in the UK the monitor displays color and the TV black and white but half way through the driver installation the color will come on the TV its when i restart it the windows log off screen goes black and white again???
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I read somewhere that some people have problems with some of the newer drivers either not outputting a picture or it displaying in b&w. Why don't you try installing older drivers.
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