laptop to TV

[vutonium]

I recently got myself a compaq presario c500 laptop. it has s video out. a frnd said that i can hook up my lappy to tv for the display. i bought the cable. it has s video connector on one end which goes into my laptop and the other end has 2 rca connectors. my tv has normal rca av in and not s video in.so when i connected the rca to tv and s to lappy,there's no disp.none of the rca connectors give display.i even connected both rca to one vid port using coupler but still no luck.http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=530&d=1168868458 This is a pic of the cord.



later i bought a svideo to single rca. the display was finally there on the tv but in monochrome.

PLEASE HELP.

[amitava82]

you have to go to display settings and select correct country and video output format. it depends on video card you have... this will fix the problem.

[Sourabh]

Did you try using the S-video to 3 RCA cable?

[vutonium]

I tried it. Actlly my laptop has a six pin connector but the cord has only 4 pins in the s video plug.can it be the problem?? I cannot find cord with six pin connector in Dombivli.Can anyone help???

[amitava82]

u need S-Video to RCA. it works with my compaq laptop as well as desktop. just change the settings i told u. initially me too got mono picture...

[mod-the-pc]

I tried it. Actlly my laptop has a six pin connector but the cord has only 4 pins in the s video plug.can it be the problem?? I cannot find cord with six pin connector in Dombivli.Can anyone help???
The S-Video standard states that the connector should have 4 pins. But most of the laptops deviate from the standard and use 5/6/7 pins. Still the 4-pin cable should work with them

[vutonium]

I tried selecting country.I tried all the countries. but the output is still monochrome.