Trident 9750 PAL setting

[ollyansell]

I have a Trident 3D Image 9750 chipset display card with TV Out.
At the top of the card is says "HK8301 RE VB"
The display card worked fine apart from the fact that the TV output was permanently in black and white. After a while I realised that this was because the card was set to NTSC and I need PAL here in the UK.
The driver in win 98 has a dropdown box that says NTSC, but is disabled.
Looking at the card, the following is printed on it:
NTSC PAL
R3 4.7K OPEN
R25 OPEN 0 ohms

Therefore I did the fiddly soldering to set the card to PAL.
However, now as the computer boots up attached to a VGA monitor the screen is overlayed over itself many times until it gets into windows when it is fine.
When I switch to the TV Out mode the TV does not display anything at all!

I reset the resistors back to the NTSC setting and it does the same as it used to, so I haven't broken the card!

Does anyone have any ideas of how to set this card to PAL?

Olly

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers ollyansell.

There is more than one form of PAL and this card is somewhat on the old side. If the card was set to ntsc, unless your tv can decode ntsc, you would see nothing or what was there would lose sync and you would have horizontal roll.

Are you using a svhs to scart converter? That could account for the monochrome output

[ollyansell]

Thanks for the welcome!

The TV can't decode ntsc as far as I know (old sony TV - no menu or likely looking switch to flick), but I had the same monochrome picture when the DVD player was set to output ntsc, so I'm assuming that it's the same problem.
I've used an SVHS-SVHS lead connecting directly to the TV and also a phono-phono lead, again connecting directly to the TV and they both produce the same monochrome picture.

It seems strange that changing the resistors as it says on the card to set PAL does something odd to the VGA output in DOS mode, but when the win98 driver kicks in it sorts itself out.

Cheers,
Olly

[NooNoo]

Then I would say you have a european version of that card - wrong pal type.

[ollyansell]

Oh well, thanks for your help.
Looks like I'll be keeping my eye out for an old cheap TV out card then!

[NooNoo]

I got an 8mb all in wonder pci card sitting here.