Matrox G400 DH TVout cable

[lcr]

Finally i received a matrox G400 32 MB DH bulk;
installation no problem and de Dual Head functions perfect with a second monitor.
Till the point I wanted to connect my TV;
since it is a bulk version, there was no cable, so i made one myself: connected pin 1 and 2 directly to pin 3 and 4 of a S-video plug of my TV-Card (Siemens MBX) but i get nothing better than a scrambled bl/white signal, no synchro. Also pin 4 with a composite video connected directly to the video in of a VR has nothing interesting.
What do i wrong ? Is there something more in the TV cable ? or do i use wrong pin outs ?

Sorry for my bad englisch, hope you do understand me

Thanx

[Kruzin]

All Dualheads, OEM or Retail are SUPPOSED to come with that cable. Get on whoever sold it to you, and DEMAND they give you one.

[lcr]

Thanx Kruzin for reply,
i've contacted my dealer but he never had TV-Cables for OEM versions, has to contact his import dealer.
Meanwhile does someome know if in that cable there is more than just direct leads ? Just pin to pin connections ?

Thanx

[Psychaos]

I bought a DH 32 meg OEM G400 a couple weeks ago and it came with the cable. You're getting ripped if your dealer won't cough one up.

[Wombat]

I remember there being a thread about this earlier, but it wasn't something I had a particular interest in.
There IS more to it than that. There's a circuit in the little nub of the TV-out connector that tells the G400 that it's outputting to a TV.

[bogie]

Hi ICR!
It is true that all the DH boards comes with the tv out cable included, but I don't agree with Wombat when he's telling you that inside the DB15 HD connector on the G400 side(secondary monitor output) is some sort of IC's. No, inside the connector is only a simple strap between pins 12 and 15 wich tells to the VGA board that the secondary monitor is a TV one.
Furthermore, in case you didn't receive not even the CD-ROM(where you can check on Uni_cd_51b/Doc/English/Guide/Guide_en.pdf-page41)here you have the pinout of the secondary display:
1.Red/Ysignal for S-video
2.Green/Csignal for S-video
3.Blue
4.Composite video
5-8,10.GND

I hope that you will get nice TV pictures&DVD movies now on!

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Dual Celery 366 at 550MHz
Epox KP6-BS mobo+MSI slot converters
G400DH-oem at 170/190
256MB SDRAM PC100
SB Live! Value-oem
FlashPoint UW SCSI controller
Seagate Cheetah 9.1GB U2W hdd
Quantum Fireball EX 5.1GB UDMA hdd
Creative 5240-E1 DVD-ROM(firmware 1.30)
Genius GF100TX NIC
Philips Brilliance 17B monitor

[Wombat]

Thanks bogie,
I didn't know what kind of connection it was, but that's the circuit I was referring to.

[lcr]

Thanx to all for reply, and indeed i have overseen that a strap must be set between pin 12 and 15.
So very hopefully i made the connection but without result: there seems to an image but it is in bl/wh and not synchronized at all.
I wait for the answer of my dealer who sold me the card with the hope to have a real cable.
CU all