had to be something....radeon prob.

[Quizno]

ok...i love this card so far, which is why this really annoys me...

its a radeon 64mb ddr vivo se

my tv out wont work. ive hooked it up the same way i did my AIW 128 pro, and the VE i had......it just wont work.

with these atis, if they are connected to a tv when you boot the pc....it will display on the tv right? well, mine wont. im positive its connected, ive checked it three times.

and when i get into windows, and try to enable tv out.....its just greyed out and says its not connected(even though im sure it is). ive tried the beta drivers from rage3d.net, the betas from ati and the supported one and none will get the tv out to work.

i havent tried video in yet. and im only trying the composite out, as i dont have an s-video tv or an s-video to composite cable.

im starting to this theres something wrong with the board itself. should i just take it back for a new one? hope i dont have to, might end up with a non-se version.

anything im overlooking here?

[Cisco Kid]

Hope you do not have to take back. Did you ever ask why it was open before you bought it????

But mine is not an SE 183/183, I used disc driver to try it and s video

Cisco kid :(

[Quizno]

yeah, they said it was because they didnt have an agp slot.

well.....if i do bring it back, they have to replace it with a new one. lets just hope its an se too.

[Quizno]

btw...i thought it might have been a bad bios. so i grabbed flashrom and both the bios for the se and the reg ddr 64mb.

i tried flashing it with the se again, said it was already done. so i flashed it with the reg ddr. went into windows, the display was horibbly corrupted.....looked like crap, and on top of the the tv out still didnt work:)

rebooted, no display at all. the machine was booting...but there was no display. i had to rely on memory to boot the machine with a startup disk, and type the right commands to reflash with the se bios. ended up doing it right.....but tv out still doesnt work.

im gonna pull the card out and see if i can find anything physically wrong with it(loose solder connection? never know)......

[Quizno]

well.....that explains it.

i just pulled the card out, and the thing is burnt....literally burnt.

an smd resitor right next to the svideo out jack is completely melted, and the board is black in that little section. theres also a small burn mark on the other side on a trace leading to the composite out.

i have no idea how that could have happened....im sure it wasnt me. my power supply did recently die on me, but i dont see how that could have caused it. my motherboard, cpu, ram, all other cards and the main part of this card are fine.

well....i guess im taking it back. if it werent for that melted resistor, i could have probably fixed it myself.....oh well. i just hope they replace it with another SE.

its wierd, thats all that is broken. i mean this card still works, everything of any serious importance is obviously intact.....and i just tried video in, it works. wierd.

[Cisco Kid]

Let me know what happens, I have given thought to returning mine and saying TV out does not work just to get a second shot at a SE, whadda think? LOL:D

Cisco Kid

[typhoonmike]

Wow. Should take it back and claim the thing set your computer on fire and trashed it. Heh. Interesting that something like that would happen. Sure you didn't have anything flopping around in the case? Not sure if it was someone in these forums or in the Hardforums that once stated "Loose wires start fires" but apparently it's something to look out for.

[Quizno]

well, returned it and rather easily too. they just said get another off the shelf, and that was it.

and im happy to say that it is an SE as well, 198/198.....so thats good. tv out works, video in works.

only thing is, in windows XP only the recommended drivers for 2k will allow the tv out to display properly. with the beta xp drivers at rage3d.net the screen goes really messed up on both the monitor and tv. with the beta 2k drivers from ati, the tv screen's colour is waay off.....really pinkish. but with the recommended drivers it works fine.

oh well......