Re: TV-Out problem

From: Mark L. Ferguson (marfer_mvpREMOVE_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:03:44 -0600

Your symptoms are consistent with the classic problem with co-axial cable.
The center pin lacks a good physical contact with the plug. If you bend the
pin slightly to ensure good physical contact, you will get rid of the slow
fade in signal. 

-- 
Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
marfers notes for windows xp 
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"Dan K" <joeblow65@mail.com> wrote in message 
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> Sorry for the multiple posts, but apparently when posting from the
> Microsoft Discussion forum, my message got posted even though I
> received an error indicating there was a failure posting the message
> and I should try again later.  So I tried again later, 7 times in
> total, all "failed".  So here's my 7 copies.  Another quality
> Microsoft product :-)
> Let's try posting from Google this time and see how that works.
> Dan K
>
> "Dan K" <Dan K@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
> news:<1B16DAB5-C13D-4A90-A479-24F5BEAFA581@microsoft.com>...
>> I have an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro which has been having problems with the 
>> TV-Out
>> capability.  ATI has been less than helpful in trying to help me resolve
>> them.  The issue is the quality of the picture is very poor.  Before 
>> anyone
>> interjects and says TV-Out quality is normally poor, I am aware of that, 
>> but
>> it is even worse than it should be.  Specifically what I am seeing is as
>> follows:  While the PC boots the TV-Out quality is as expected.  I can
>> clearly see my POST and early boot-up sequence.  The Windows XP splash 
>> screen
>> looks perfect, than right when the scrolling progress indicator on the 
>> splash
>> screen pauses (mine always pauses for a split second after being up for a 
>> few
>> seconds.) the picture becomes very snowy.  Shortly thereafter the picture
>> goes away entirely.  Now this happens whether I have any ATI specific 
>> driver
>> loaded or not.  (That is to say, even with no ATI or Windows drivers for 
>> the
>> 9800 Pro loaded, I get TV-Out up to this point.)  If I do have the latest
>> 9800 Pro drivers loaded, I must enable TV-Out from the driver control 
>> panel,
>> however the quality is still very poor as mentioned above.  I had a 9700 
>> Pro
>> in the past which seemed to work fine (except it would overheat so ATI 
>> sent
>> me a new 9800 Pro replacement)
>> Additionally, after messing around with it for a while, I decided to
>> re-install Windows from scratch.  Everything worked perfectly for a few 
>> weeks
>> (including TV-
>> Out) but then just today, the problem came back.  There is nothing I can 
>> put
>> my finger on in terms of software I have installed, or driver updates I 
>> may
>> have gotten to cause the issue.  I have obviously re-installed all the 
>> video
>> drivers to no avail.  I have also un-installed anything I could think of
>> since It last worked.  No dice.  Tried restoring to a restore point where 
>> I
>> know it worked, still no help.
>> If anyone knows of any issues, has seen this problem before, or has any 
>> info
>> on how I can proceed, I would appreciate it very much.  I am a software
>> engineer, so no need to dumb it down for me.
>> I am currently running SP2 with all the latest updates.  However as
>> mentioned before, I have not updated Windows in the recent past so it did
>> work with SP2 installed previously.