Help!!! ATI 3D Rage LT Pro - TV-Out port

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Recently I bought an old 2nd hand PC which comes with an ATI 3D Rage LT Pro video card. My original purpose is to let my daughter have her own pc, so she wouldn't bug me for my own to play games. I later found that this video card comes with a tv-out port which made me wonder if I could output my divx video to a television. See the following picture for the port.
The card picture is shown below.
http://geekystuff.tripod.com/card.html
Question: Since this is a 2nd hand card, it doesn't come with any documentation, nor any other accessories. The tv-out port shown above doesn't seem to be either 4-pin or 7-pin S-Video port. Could anyone tell me which type of port is it? And how to connect it to TV?

Thanks a million!
 
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Sorry, yahoo photos site doesn't offer a unique link to my images, so I have to look for an alternative. The links above have been modified.

Finanlly,the images can be viewed by opening an external web page!

Nowadays, internet freebies always come with a price!:mad:
 
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Im stumped.. see who manufactured the card and see if that helps for some documentation.
 
Hehe, I tried to get those cables myself... to no avail, for a long time. They are only used on older ATI cards & some onboard Compaq graphic adapters. Fortunately I found http://www.svideo.com/7pinadapter.html ... they have a variety of suitable cables. I recommend the Y-type ones with the ATI plug on one end, and with both a C-video Cinch and a mini-DIN standard S-video on the other(s). Maybe a bit expensive compared to an entire graphics card, but I did not want to dismantle my PC or (even worse) look for a new card with the appropriate (old-style) DVI output.

Note: You can *attach* your TV or VCR to the card with those cables. Making TV out actually *work* on them might be a different story. Mine worked out-of-the-box, but only in plain BIOS text mode. As soon as I switch to FB or graphics, the TV loses sync. Just so you know...
 
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Hehe, I tried to get those cables myself... to no avail, for a long time. They are only used on older ATI cards & some onboard Compaq graphic adapters. Fortunately I found http://www.svideo.com/7pinadapter.html ... they have a variety of suitable cables. I recommend the Y-type ones with the ATI plug on one end, and with both a C-video Cinch and a mini-DIN standard S-video on the other(s). Maybe a bit expensive compared to an entire graphics card, but I did not want to dismantle my PC or (even worse) look for a new card with the appropriate (old-style) DVI output.

Note: You can *attach* your TV or VCR to the card with those cables. Making TV out actually *work* on them might be a different story. Mine worked out-of-the-box, but only in plain BIOS text mode. As soon as I switch to FB or graphics, the TV loses sync. Just so you know...
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Thanks man, it will be not worthy to buy such a connector that costs $16 US when the whole box (used) is only $60 CND. I may go looking for a used video card with standard tv-out port.
 
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