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Connecting Your Video Out Graphics Card to a Television or VCR

1Turn off your computer and your television or VCR.

2Ensure your graphics card is installed correctly.

To use television display, you need the enhanced ATI driver (version 6.0 or greater) installed on your system. For information about placing the card in your computer and installing the enhanced ATI driver, see the Getting Started guide.

3Determine if your television or VCR has an S-Video or Composite video connection.

4Looking at the back of your computer, locate your graphics card. Using an

S-Video or Composite cable, attach one end of the cable to your graphics card and the other to your television or VCR. (See Figure 1. Connecting your ATI RADEON™ card to a TV or VCR below.)

5Turn on your computer and your television or VCR.

6To turn your television display on and off, please see Enabling and Disabling the Television Display on page 5.

If there is no display on your television, you may need to switch your television to video display. For more information, see the documentation supplied with your television. If you have a television connected to your VCR, you can use the television as your computer’s display. For information about connecting a television to your VCR, see the documentation that came with your VCR.

Video Input

Composite Out

S-Video Output

VGA Monitor Connector

Computer

TV OR

VCR

Composite Input

OR

S-Video Input

Composite Cable

OR

S-Video Cable

Figure 1. Connecting your ATI RADEON™ card to a TV or VCR

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