(Not) seeing red!Follow

Thats usually a bad or loose cord. Specfically, somewhere along that run you are dropping either pin 1 or pin 6. It's usually pin 1 that is the problem since its the outermost corner pin, and if any of the adaptors are loose, you will see that. The cord itself could also be broken internally. Or the adaptor could be wired wrong. Wiggle and press fit each of the adaptors and see if the red comes back for even a second. if you see it intermittantly flicker, it means the cord has a break somewhere and you should get a new one. It could also be the pin on the card or the TV, but in my experiance thats the least likely point of failure.

We have a workbench PC build / test lab at my other job with 8 LCD monitor bays. the cords on those stations get plugged and unplugged thousands of times a year, so we tend to see quite a bit of the similar issu. though for some reason we usually lose the yellow pin.

depends what you mean by Vivo. If it's a standard HDMI or Displaylink port, then yes it is possible to convert that to either DVI or VGA, or run directly to the TV. If your video card has a spare DVI port as well, you can go Direct DVI to HDMI, assuming your TV has such a free port, and get a better quality signal. I'd need to see a picture of the ports, or know the model knumber of the TV and the specific video ccard to tell you for sure though.

The top connector is s-video (even says so on the card). It's kind of a crappy video carrying system. It's really intended for displaying analog video (so kind of a low quality TV signal methodology). Connecting from a computer to your TV, you'll be better off using the VGA connector. It'll work better for handling the native resolutions your computer will put out, and it's higher resolution capable to boot.

About the only thing I'd ever suggest using S-video for is if you need to connect a DVD or VCR player directly to your TV and don't have a spare component video port and don't want to spring for any sort of video/sound component control box. It's kind of kludgey even for that though, since you then have to route the audio through a different channel.

Use the VGA connections. For this use, it'll work much better. It's recommended that you keep the refresh rate to the video card at 60. You can experiment with resolution settings as well. Since your card has a DVI connector, it likely will go higher than what the TV will accept.

Edited, Jun 7th 2011 6:34pm by gbaji

Wait. Your video card just has an S-video and *one* DVI connector? You still will want to use a DVI to VGA cable instead of the S-video. If you can't manage with the VGA-VGA cable acting as an extension, you can buy longer DVI-VGA cables. Assuming you have no need for another monitor other than the TV, that'll work. But as Kao says, better video cards are relatively cheap.