Why does 6600GT TV out only show in black & White?

Sorry for sounding daft but dont know what you mean.

I have a start socit at the back of the TV and that is were the cables are pluged into with an input start socket.

I also have on the front of the tv 3 input ports 1 x yellow (vedio) 1x white (Audio) 1x headphones.
 
When i press menu button on tv it gives me the following options

Picture
clock
timer program
language
Miscullaneous

Under misc it as the following
wake up
lock
aspect
auto repeat
tape speed
counter setting
VCR system

This is a dual tv/vedio portable tv

When i plug in my ps2 it picks it up 1st go?
 
Your TV probably doesn't support S-Video. By that I mean it can handle the signal but 2 of the 4 pins in the S-Video cable are not being used, hence the reason your getting black and white. Not many TV's have S-video inputs or are able to fully support it, if your TV supports S-Video then it will either have an S-Video port (round 4-pin) or there will be a menu option to allow you to set one of your scarts to accept S-Video via the standard adapters.

The best way around it is to use composite input, the quality isn't much worse and your not likely to notice it if your using the TV for video/gaming. If you happen to be using an nVidia card then your in luck as there is a tool called TvTool which does support some non-nVidia cards too - see the website for info. It should allow you to use your S-Video cable but switch the signal the card is sending to composite and give you full colour.

To answer your question about the 4-pin/7-pin cable, S-Video is 4-pin but the graphics card will have more holes which are used for other cables.
 
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Thanks for that I have been playing with the TVwizard and seen the compsoit so will give that ago, I think that will be the ones that plug in front of the TV is that correct?

Just pluged it in the front but still B&W driving me nuts.

Should I have it set on a spacific PAL frequancy as there is loads of letter in fron of a list of pal options?
 
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Well after hours of reading via google search found the problem.

Nvidia drivers. followed advice of a site and got 81.?? driver and that fixed it with no messing in the settings. What are Nvidia playing at ?????
 
i had this a while ago with my 9800se AIW.

I had to do a little soldering on the S Video -> Scart Adaptor that goes into the tv, just joining two pins and it worked fine.

Easiest way is just to use composite :)
 
I did the solder thing too. Open the SCART convertor, join 15 to 20 (just pushed in a little U-shaped wire, didn't even solder it), tape up the convertor and bingo. That was for my Matrox TV-Out.
 
try
right click (on desktop)> Properties> Settings> Advanced> Geforce 6600GT>

You then want to click on the tv image and choose properties until you get to a list of PAL and NTCS options, there should be an "options" (or something like that) at the bottom, then change the setting in the drop down menu (its probably on s-video or auto) to component or s-video depending which one its on. That should sort it for you. :) No need to then go and hardmod anything.
 
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