VGA to Component Sony KV-27

[Surfpuppy2k]

A little background

I bought a Biostar iDEQ 210V, 1 GB RAM, AMD 2300+, Sapphire Theatrix Theatre 550Pro TV Tuner Card, Gigabyte Radeon 9550 in hopes of setting up a nice little HTPC that my GF would approve having in the living room. The OS is WMCE2005, but I switched to GB-PVR.

The unit went together pretty easy until I tried putting both the Radeon 9550 and the Theater 550 Pro in at the same time. The machine wouldn't boot. I have tried different PS and still no luck. I am going to try a few more graphics cards to see if they work.

The question is will the Crescendo-Systems TC2000 transcoder work with the VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP VGA output. Right now that is the only output I have unless I find a different card that works in the system.

The Sony KV-27 isn't HD, but it still has component inputs, so it should work. I was concerned because I read that if you don't use the correct setting, you can damage the TV.

I am still new to the whole PVR thing; so if I left out some info, let me know what else you need.

[kny3twalker]

all you should need with that video card is this
a DVI to component dongle from ATI

http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2537967

should be a little less than a transcoder

[Surfpuppy2k]

kny3twalker

I believe that the ATI adaptor dongle can only be used with ATI cards. If I could have the Radeon working in the system, there would be no problem, because it has an S-video out. Because the ATI Radeon doesn't work in the system, I'm stuck with the S3G as my only output.

Thanks for the thought, but I think the transcoder is my only hope unless I am able to find a different videocard that will work in there

If I am wrong about the ATI dongle and others have gotten to work with the S3G, also let me know because it is a lot cheaper than the transcoder

[kny3twalker]

what is S3G, I am pretty sure it will work with the gigabyte video card
I do not think gigabyte has removed the component output pins on DVI

and before I wasted any money on a transcoder
I might ebay the 9550 and buy a 6600 standard with native component output
you can get them for the same if not a lot less than a transcoder
and they are supported by MCE

the 9550 is directx9 but not supported according to MCE's list
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/partners/dfw/partnerlisting.mspx

[Ian Fleet]

The Crescendo transcoder will work. As long as your video card is putting out a RGB signal then the transcoder will convert it to a component signal.
http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=transcoder_1