Radeon PCI 32 MB SDR w/S-Video Out

Dyre Straits

I just acquired this card in a trade with my son-in-law. I gave him a AiW Rage 128 32 MB AGP card so he could do some capturing.
However, this one I got won't allow me to output to the TV or VCR. I continue to get a NOT CONNECTED indication in the Display Properties/Displays no matter whether I use the S-Video connector cable or the RCA Composite cable. I'm using a little 'dongle' that plugs into the S-Video Out connection on the video card. It has the RCA, S-Video, and a crossover Audio that allows me to plug into the Line-In on the sound card.
There's also an IRQ assigned to the Radeon, BUT, the system seems to persist in moving a PCI to USB controller along with it no matter what I manually assign to the Radeon. And that PCI to USB had a hardware conflict indicator on it, so I Disabled it for further testing. Still no Connection for the TV OUT.

Any ideas?

Dyre Straits

PS System it's in:

P200 w/MMX, Windows 98SE, 64 MB RAM, SB 16 ISA

Yeah, I know...it's OLD.

Asmoday

Maybe a stupid question but...are your tv/vcr switched on before turning the pc on....
when i had my radeon i had the same problem...boy did i feel stupid when i realized that the tv had to be "on" before the computer..
But that is propably not your problem....what driver do you use btw..?

Dyre Straits

Well, I've been using ATI AiW and VIVO cards for about 5 years now. I've had excellent success with them during this time.
Yes, everything is on and I reboot the computer. There's simply a "Not Connected" message in the Display Properties/Displays screen.
I did find out this weekend that there are some parts that my son-in-law failed to bring along with the card. Perhaps those will correct the problem.

As for drivers, I usually use the latest Omegadrive/Plutonium drivers. I'm using the most current ones from ATi for Windows98 now.

Dyre Straits

peroni

For this problem I believe there was an entry in the official ATI FAQ.
I'm going to check it out, stand by.
Edit: found it!
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/3056.html


To solve this problem you will have to physically move the card into another PCI slot.

Dyre Straits

Thanks, I just printed out that page and wonder why it didn't come up during my own search for TV OUT problems.


OK. Me bad. I don't know why this didn't occur to me, but I guess we can't remember everything.

"The more I know, the more I forget.
The more I forget, the less I know.
The less I know, the less I forget.
The less I forget, the more I know."