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Need help conecting an s-video and composite for old display

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I have an old display monitor
Zenith ZVM-123 monochrome green composite monitor.
http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/Terminals/Zenith1-1L.jpg
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr148/blackbird307/193687_10150127707182099_700582098_6858949_2226136_o.jpg
Here are the specifications for this particular model and other related models
http://books.google.ca/books?id=f- [...] 23&f=false

as you can see it takes composite.

When I connect it directly up to my DVD, it works. But when I connect it to a computer using S-Video to composite, it doesn't get a signal. I have tried several old video cards, even a tv tuner from both ATI and Nvidia. I even tried using an Compaq Deskpro 386s's old Matrox Pip-512b card that theoretically outputs composite. All computers are working normaly. Why doesn't it work? It boggles my mind, I got it to work several years ago, but suddenly it's incompatible with computers??

Can someone please help me?


Also, I would have put this under graphics & displays but im forced to use a sub category which the issue doesn't fall under.Thank you


Message edited by blackbird307 on 08-06-2011 at 06:32:54 AM
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