Video Amplifier Troubles... - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

Curry · 06-15-2006, 04:10 PM

I have an xo-vision amp9 video amplifier. After giving it some power and hooking it up to my s-video out I plugged in the first TFT LCD. Bingo, worked like a charm... I then plugged a second tft LCD of the same kind into the second output, I got a black and white image...

I did the same with the other 5 screens and got the same thing, black and white...

Then I unplugged the first one (the one that gets color) and put the other monitors in there and they STILL got black and white picture...

Anyone know what going on? I can't figure this out, I tried every setting on the monitors that had settings and nothing is working, If I plug the LCD into all the outputs each one will give it color. I tried all the cables and im getting nothing... HELP!

Curry · 06-15-2006, 11:39 PM

Ok so here's the situation now.
I took the video amp inside, powered it up and hooked up two of the LCD's using the TV-out on my Geforce-5200FX. At first there was a black and white screen but then i fiddled with something and it turned to color! So I plugged in another and another and color after color!!!!
This leaves me to conclude that it may NOT be the amp, it may in fact have to do with my videocard in the car settings.
The video card in the car is a PCI ATI Radeon7000...
Would anyone have any idea on what settings I should fiddle with now? Or any software that might help me out? I'm gonna try using UltraMon tomorrow and see if that will do anything...
I tried changing the refresh rates, I tried using PAL and NTSC... niether of those worked...

Curry · 06-17-2006, 02:05 PM

*solved*

It was the shitty ATI card.

LiquidClen · 06-17-2006, 04:01 PM

did you just upgrade to a better card?

Curry · 06-17-2006, 04:26 PM

Ati apparently has a problem with their s-video/composite out. Nvidia doesn't. I doubt it was the fact that the ATI was a PCI card... maybe that was the problem.

All I know is when I hooked up the amp to my Ge-Force FX-5200 it worked perfectly. Unfortunately, 3 of the monitors i got from the same guy went black and white after using them for about 45 mins or so. Im returning them for my money back and buying them from a better source. The other 3 work just fine and in color.

So I'm going to get a ge-force MX4000 and hope that works, if not I'll just have to get the 5200 and pray that the CarPC runs it.