A500 and TV not syncing properly???

[bloodline]

Ok here's a weird one for you:

On Saturday I used an A500 (1.3 with Action Replay III and 1 Meg of ram) with an RGB to Scart lead. I played Monkey Island 2 for somewhere between 8 and 12 hours. I ahved my games and shut down the A500.

On Sunday, I turned the A500 and TV on but the image is flickering and distorted in as similar way to what you would see if you plugged the A500 in to a VGA monitor, no verticle hold. You can make out the image and see what it's ment to be, nothing actually readable.

Ok, any ideas?

[Acill]

Sounds like what we get here if you try a PAL game on an NTSC TV screen. Is it the same game you played before or a new one?

[bloodline]

Acill wrote:
Sounds like what we get here if you try a PAL game on an NTSC TV screen. Is it the same game you played before or a new one?

PAL Game, PAL A500 and PAL TV.. as I said it worked fine on saturday, but not on Sunday. THe Kickstart sceen is also affected by the distortion.

I plugged my Action replayIII in and used it to force the screen to NTSC (Just in case). The distortion changed but did not corerct the problem.

I really don't know what's wrong. I'm going to try with my A1200, as this could be a problem with the Lead or the TV... I have the A520 TV modulator but no leads so I can't use it :-(

[Linchpin]

Isnt this caused by bad shield on the scart cable? I seemed to remember that once i had a playstaton running on scart that was not holding on vertical lock... was the cable at fault there (bad shield)

[bloodline]

LinchpiN wrote:
Isnt this caused by bad shield on the scart cable? I seemed to remember that once i had a playstaton running on scart that was not holding on vertical lock... was the cable at fault there (bad shield)

I'll find out when I try it with the A1200 :-(

[bloodline]

LinchpiN wrote:
Isnt this caused by bad shield on the scart cable? I seemed to remember that once i had a playstaton running on scart that was not holding on vertical lock... was the cable at fault there (bad shield)

I tested my A1200, exactly the same problem. I opened up the cable and found that one of the wires had snapped at the scart end of the cable.

No problem for me since I have a soldering Iron. One "repair" later and I am now in the market for a new cable.

Anyone know where I can find one. Help I can't use my Amiga's with out ine!!! :-(

[patrik]

@bloodline:

Maybe not next door to you, but GGS-Data in Sweden sells Amiga RGB Scart leads for about 10 UKP and I dont think shipping to the UK would cost that much.


/Patrik

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I rather think the telly is not functioning properly.
I have the same difficulties too. The A500 works perfectly with the scart cable connected to my Atari SC1425, while not functioning properly with my tv (black screen). When I turn off my tv, I see a flash of what it should display. I think this telly has ruined my Sega megadrive too, so be careful.