Computer monitor woes

Rapscallio · 09-22-2008, 10:07 PM

I've been hitting the overtime hard at work of late, so I thought I'd treat myself. Being in the UK means that ownership of a TV costs you a licence fee every year, and the short version is that I have no intention of buying a TV. I do, however, have a rather nice CRT monitor that I suspected I could use.

I did some research and this arrived this morning. I scampered off to the local electronics store, credit card in my grubby paw, and took my booty home.

The monitor is displaying, "Attention - out of range H: 15.6KHz V: 50.0Hz", and that's all I get. I can't see any screen to allow me to alter the vertical frequency, and I don't know if the horizontal frequency would make a difference.

I've yet to try and find someone who would allow me to test the Wii in their place (not tried, not a lack of candidates), but I thought I'd ask here for any thoughts.

Rapscallion (yeah, spelled my username wrong...)

FloYdian · 09-23-2008, 02:59 AM

first of all... those are component cables.. i have a crt from 97 and it only has composite inputs. im sure you know the difference.

well once you connected the cables it gives you that error eh? mm try messing with the refresh rates of your cpu. try different rates.

on desktop click properties then settings then advanced then monitor.

theres a thread about this a few lines up of a guy who had a similar problem.

Rapscallio · 09-23-2008, 07:12 AM

I'd love to be able to get into the Wii settings to alter the resolution, but I don't actually get a screen so I can see to do that.

Rapscallion

linuxghost · 09-25-2008, 06:23 AM

Computer monitors cannot display interlaced pictures. If your Wii is set to 480i when you plug it into your monitor, you will not see anything on the monitor no matter what.

You'll either have to switch it to 480p on a TV or navigate the menus by sound to switch it to 480p.

This is, of course, assuming you're using component cables and some sort of interface for your monitor that has component inputs.

Rapscallio · 10-01-2008, 09:48 AM

I have to admit that I did the RTFM thing after my last post and grimaced, but thanks for the information. I have somewhat of a dislike of televisions, due to the crap sent out by the TV companies, and over here you have to pay a licence fee so the merciless hounds of the TV licensing people can chase you down and tell you that you don't have a licence repeatedly.

Aye, a sore spot.

Anyway, I need a little more assistance, if you could, please.

I've been to someone else's house and got the Wii working through the provided Scart converter, but that wouldn't display the HDTV/EDTV setting - it was greyed out. I couldn't get a picture up with the cable that came with the Wii - the red/white/yellow one. The TV is marked as HD ready.

So, what I need to know is if SCART can provide a HDTV signal. I suspect it can't, but a quick googling was inconclusive. If I read it right, the provided Wii cable is Composite, and I need component for HDTV, right?

As a side note, would a Wii work on something like this without altering resolution settings?

Cheers!

Rapscallion

Budo · 10-01-2008, 01:56 PM

You need to take your component cable's GREEN jack, and plug it into the video input on a SDTV. The picture will be black and white, but the 480p option will be highlighted. Choose it, unplug the green from the SDTV, and hook up your Wii to the HDTV as usual.

hencam[uk] · 10-01-2008, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rapscallio

I've been to someone else's house and got the Wii working through the provided Scart converter, but that wouldn't display the HDTV/EDTV setting - it was greyed out. I couldn't get a picture up with the cable that came with the Wii - the red/white/yellow one. The TV is marked as HD ready.

The HDTV/EDTV option was greyed out because you need the Component cable and the Wii knows when it's not connected

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rapscallio

So, what I need to know is if SCART can provide a HDTV signal. I suspect it can't, but a quick googling was inconclusive. If I read it right, the provided Wii cable is Composite, and I need component for HDTV, right?

Although it's technically possible to carry component video over Scart, it's not in the specifications so unless you have one of the very few (and expensive) sets that support this, no it can't. The supplied Wii cable is composite as you say, which is one of the worst ways of carrying a video signal (only RF is worst!)

You can get an RGB scart lead which improves the picture quality hugely and uses a scart connection.

However, if you want to use the EDTV progressive mode then you need the component video cable. You can check if your TV has a component in as there will be three phone sockets next to each other, one Red, one Green and one Blue.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rapscallio

As a side note, would a Wii work on something like this without altering resolution settings?

You would need a component video cable for the projector - I don't see any mention of it having a Scart input, and UK wii's don't support S-Video.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Neil

Rapscallio · 10-02-2008, 12:01 AM

Thanks for the answers, folks.

I've been hunting through chums to see if anyone I can visit with a bag o'Wii has a TV with the requisite connector on the back - all TVs I've seen recently don't have it. One has and I should get a chance to set the fellow to 480p on Sunday.

I'll let you know. Cheers!

Rapscallion

Rapscallio · 10-06-2008, 08:13 AM

Went to said chum's house last night - got it working within minutes. However, he's the only person (out of several) who have the correct connection to use on the back of his TV.

Must admit, it looks nice on the monitor. I think I'll be busy for the rest of the day...

Rapscallion