<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Johnny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarpublic@gmail.com">jarpublic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">>> Another option would be a pasive S-Video -> Composite adapter - they can<br>
> There are much cheaper ones:<br>
> Don't know how they compare to the Radio Shack ones.<br>
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</div>I believe this is what he was already using and having problems with.<br>
His manufacturer's website explicitly said that no S-video to<br>
composite converters will work. </blockquote><div><br>No, he tried to use the Composite video adapter cable specific to his FX5200 card.<br><br>As noted on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video</a> - the 7-pin Din connector on the FX5200 probably used pins 5 and 7 for the Composite video, and thus had no passive components in it's adapter cable. Since the 8600 doesn't have the same pinout and/or doesn't output composite video directly, that cable does not work on the 8600. <br>
<br>But the passive adapters Drew and I have noted will work fine in this case, as they combine the standard S-Video output from the card into a composite video signal. So as far as the GFX card is concerned, it's outputting S-Video.<br>
<br>J-e-f-f-A<br></div></div>