Heya everyone,
I've been messing about lately with plugging an old pc of mine into the tv and hifi in my bedroom - the hifi has stopped playing cds, so the pc can play music instead, and the pc also has a dvd-drive so that will hopefully be ok for watching dvds too.
I've been having some problems with the video output of the graphics card. It only seems to want to output in black and white. I tried updating the graphics card drivers (no luck), I read somewhere that the newer ones were buggy, so tried older ones (no luck), changed the output of the video card from PAL to NTSC in the BIOS (no idea why, but worth a try - still no luck), messed about with it in windows me and about three different versions of linux (no luck).
So, I was wondering - is there anything else that I can try? My only thought is that either the card is dodgy, the cables that came with it were dodgy (I've read some people saying that these can be pretty poor quality), or that it's a software-controlling-the-card problem.
The main reason I think that it could be the last of these is that I'm using windows ME on the pc at the moment, and the display properties window crashes whenever I try to get to the tab to control the settings of the card's output.
I got paid last week, so was thinking of running out and buying a new version of xp, which I was hoping would not mess up when I'm trying to control the settings of the card - but before I did that, I figured I would check with the experts here.
Shall I try xp, or is there something I have missed? It's an Nvidia GeForce 440 MX - on an old HP pc (I say this because the POST screen has some HP advert covering it up, and the background of this should be blue, but is in fact black, which makes me wonder whether or not is could be the cables).
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
