Enabling the S-Video out on a 390E with Win2K

[slackerdeluxe]

Howdy all:

I'm looking for pointers on using the S-Video out on a TP 390E. It currently has Windows 2000 and I don't seem to be able to find any specific driver or software for the S-Video.

Hints and suggestions welcome.

Tks

[robskorner]

I know this is an old post, but I had the same problem and figured others may look for a solution to this. A Standard S-video cable would not work with my old 390E or my current 390X. Not sure if it was fault of my laptop, cable, or the TV I was trying to hook to. I found the following site:

http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/svideo2cvideo.html

and built the adapter to convert S-video to RCA. Works great. I plug in the S-video into the laptop and the RCA to the TV and turn on the laptop. I get an instant picture on my TV set.

Use the driver from IBM's website and not the default Win2K driver for the video chipset. Using the advanced radio button in the display properties and the window that opens will have a Neomagic tab and you can turn on and off the S-video port and tweak settings. I noticed video is choppy on my 390X using the default Win2k driver. It's nice and smooth using IBM's W2K video driver. I use Divx player and not Windows Media Player for reference.

[soyabean]

Use the dirvers from Ibm. Look again.