Dell 2407wfp and A1200 on composite in.

[AJCopland]

Ok a while ago I bought myself a Dell 2407wfp and it's lovely etc. It's got loads of inputs which is good as I've got my Xbox360 and two PC's hooked upto it.

Currently for my A1200 gaming needs I've been using an old 1084 monitor with crappy composite. I know I can put composite into the Dell so I've given it a go.

I get *almost* nothing. Just a black screen and the symbol indicating that it's found a signal (It's a picture of the port in the top left of the screen) flicking on and off repeatedly.

Has anyone had any luck with using the composite port and an A1200 on the 2407? Or is it simply out-of-range and not handling the 15Khz at all as I suspect.

Cheers.

Andy

[AJCopland]

DrDekker wrote:
Andy,

I've no experience with the 2407wfp, but it should give you a reasonable display through the composite.  Is there a button that needs pressing to select that particular input to be displayed?

Have you tried connecting to the composite on a TV? If you get no output, then I'd suspect there's a fault with the Amiga.

Yes there's a button to select the composite, I use it frequently to switch between the other devices I have plugged in :-D However as I described it gives a flicking on/off input icon without ever displaying anything.

The A1200 works fine when plugged into the 1084 so I'm guessing that the 2407 doesn't like the 15khz signal.

Andy

[AJCopland]

Gaiyan wrote:
If your 1200 works on the 1084 with composite, then you should be ok with the 1200. If your 2407wfp has a composite input, by all means it has to be 15kHz. Do you have any other device with a composite output to try on the 2407wfp?

Joshua.

Good point I have a couple of other consoles around that are downstairs I could try with. Not sure If the Dreamcast has composite out though it's been so long since I last changed it over. I think It uses SCART at the moment. I'm sure the PS2 is using SCART too actually. Hmm. I have another some other Amigas I can try with too but if it's just the wrong signal frequency then I'll be out of luck with those too.

Andy

[AJCopland]

It's a PAL UK monitor though I don't believe there's any difference in the US and UK versions anyway. My GameCube works just fine through composite.

The A1200 is in its default mode, as in booting straight form disk no screen prefs or anything else set.

Andy

[AJCopland]

@humppa
Ah bum, looks like that doesn't bode well then. A bit disappointing.

I don't have time today to check their suggestions but I also dont like the idea of unplugging and plugging back in the A1200s composite aerial lead whilst it's switched on just to get the Dell to pay attention to it :-o

I'll keep you guys posted with what I find. Otherwise it's back to the 1084 :-D

Andy

[AJCopland]

@Framiga
SO the answer is; no, it wont work.



Andy

[AJCopland]

@MrZammler
I've actually got a Amiga video to SCART connector on the way for another project (parts of which still haven't turned up yet, grrr ebay) so I was thinking of just abandoning the idea of running it through the Dell for now.

It doesn't look like other have succeeded. Is there an Amiga to RGB or component format / signal? The Dell does take component as well but I've only ever used composite or SCART on them having never owned a TV with anything else before (Yes I have just go a better paying job how can you tell :-D).

Andy