I'm not quite following all your steps..
My current connection is as follows: I managed to obtain a S-Video (one end) to DUAL female RCA.
OK, good, so from an S-video plug to dual RCA. So far so good..
Then I obtained a Male RCA, Y-Splitter cable (all three ends are Male), and connected this to my S-Video cable above.
What?
Did you just take both RCA plugs (Chroma and Luma) and join them to a single RCA plug?
If so (and I'm not sure), that's no longer s-video..
Or do you have 2 Y splitters and you are just using them as a gender bender???
Then I connected one end of the cable (S-Video) to the back of my IBM ThinkPad, and the other TWO Male RCA connectors to Y (Luma) and C (chroma) of my 1084S-D1.
And this is where I'm totally lost..
What happened to the Y splitter?
You need to go from s-video to separate chroma and luma, and they have to stay separate all the way to the monitor...
I'm sure I just misread something...
desiv