A friend just contacted me yesterday with a question re: using their HD 3850 with a component older flat screen t.v. First of all I know that both the computer, and that particular video card work perfectly as I used them myself with an old VGA monitor about 6 days ago. What is happening is that they use the component cable from proper round connection on video card and plug the component connections into the back of the t.v. They get a b+w XP start-up screen, and then no pic at all. I am guessing that maybe they need to use the remote and change auxillary settings on t.v. to jive with gpu, or something like that, but I really do not know. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks