PC -> TV display

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I plan on building a home theater PC, have most of the parts, just need a
case, video card, and keyboard/mouse.

For the inputs on the TV, it only has composite. I found a cheap video card
using a Radeon 7000 chip that has built-in composite, s-video, and vga
outputs. If I were to simply connect the TV to the card using the composite
cable, would it display stuff from the boot, or would I have to configure it
using a VGA monitor to display from composite, and then it would only
display after it loads Windows?

 

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Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video (More info?)

Anonymous Joe wrote:

> I plan on building a home theater PC, have most of the parts, just need a
> case, video card, and keyboard/mouse.
>
> For the inputs on the TV, it only has composite. I found a cheap video
> card using a Radeon 7000 chip that has built-in composite, s-video, and
> vga
> outputs. If I were to simply connect the TV to the card using the
> composite cable, would it display stuff from the boot, or would I have to
> configure it using a VGA monitor to display from composite, and then it
> would only display after it loads Windows?

Depends on the board--if the board vendor did something wierd to the design
or the BIOS then you might have to do some configuring--if it follows the
ATI reference model then it should display the boot screen on all attached
devices.

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