2006-03-03, 01:38 PM
Hopefully some one out there has a Gigabyte 6600 hooked up to an HDTV that can help me with an issue I am having. First of all, I used the supplied breakout pod to hook up the HDTV to the 6600 using component cables. I then inserted the new video card, turned on the power to the TV, and rebooted my system. At power up the VGA display was on both my monitor and the TV (although the TV was only grey shades).
I then installed the drivers and rebooted. At power up, a wizard ran that asked what mode my dual monitors should run in (clone, shared, or independent). I selected independent so that I could set up separate display resolutions for each. It then asked about the resolution of my monitor, which I set, and after changing the resolution on the monitor, I lost the display on the HDTV (grey background only). It did not ask about setting the resolution on the HDTV, and one of the dialog boxes said it was connected in S-Video mode, not component video. Also, when I try to adjust the display settings for the 2nd display (HDTV), I do not get the higher resolution choices associated with 1080i or 720p. The highest resolution available is 1024x768.
Has anyone here been able to get a 6600 card with the breakout cable to work with component video (1080i or 720p)? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Terry
I then installed the drivers and rebooted. At power up, a wizard ran that asked what mode my dual monitors should run in (clone, shared, or independent). I selected independent so that I could set up separate display resolutions for each. It then asked about the resolution of my monitor, which I set, and after changing the resolution on the monitor, I lost the display on the HDTV (grey background only). It did not ask about setting the resolution on the HDTV, and one of the dialog boxes said it was connected in S-Video mode, not component video. Also, when I try to adjust the display settings for the 2nd display (HDTV), I do not get the higher resolution choices associated with 1080i or 720p. The highest resolution available is 1024x768.
Has anyone here been able to get a 6600 card with the breakout cable to work with component video (1080i or 720p)? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Terry