gericom laptop s-video output overscan fix?

[smok3]

i always get that black border,
there is nothing on the subject to be found in gericom manuals, google, ect..., there is no setting in bios for pal/overscan or overscan of any kind, no setting to be find in windows drivers, how do i fix that?

tia :rolleyes:

[jeremymacmull]

Hi

what graphics card have u got if Geforce X go then try TVtool

i dont know the site but search for it and its .de

it can change the output i used to get about 15% underscan and it can correct this i think it can correct overscan too

Hope this helps

Jeremy

[smiller667]

Gericom means nothing ... they are a distributor of loads of different, mostly Taiwan-made notebooks. Try to find out sth. about the maker of your notebook or better still about the graphics chip used.

[smok3]

ah well, tnx for replys, i didnt fix anything really..., i found this help file

http://users.volja.net/smoker/pub/gericom.htm

that is supposed to answer my question, but iam afraid is in german..., from what i can understand there is something to change in bios to get the overscan, in fact i cant locate any such bios settings..

[Ramirez]

OK, here is mine translation attempt of that German page :)

Download latest video drivers available at
ftp.gericom.com/notebook/webgine

Complete the following procedure when using TV-OUT under WINXP
Verify proper cable connection between your Notebook and TV

Click Start –--settings--- control panel---- display--- settings
Advanced---utility Manager---Driver Mode Settings
Click on the Driver Mode combo and set it to Mirror Mode
choose TV as your secondary display device and then click OK
At this point the picture should be showed on the ext TV set.


Secondary display type should be set to "PAL" in BIOS, under
Advanced CMOS configuration setup, and the TV Scan type
should be set to "Over Scan" also.
As for the latest drivers for your SYS-630VGA card,really no problems here,You can D/L it at Gericom's FTP server(VGA folder)the only
problematic part seem to be your mobo BIOS(or more precisely its Revision which seem to be pretty old),its looks like you need to flash it in order to be able to adjust these setting mentioned in the article, there are couple of BIOS updates available both for the motherboard Rev.05(with TV-Out) check if this is the case with your mobo.

[smok3]

wow, tnx Ramirez, finnaly some data i can actualy work on :)

i will try this in this order:
- update drivers
- flash bios
- harsh words