Amiga 2000

[lassie]

Hi i have 3 Amiga 2000. The 2 of them i can connect to my tv with a scart lead and they work perfect. but the last one shows only black and white screen. Are there something i can do to change it in workbench? it works fine with an old amiga monitor, i have tried 3 tv but the amiga is black and white on all of them.

[utri007]

Do you have also 3 SCART cabels?

Do you see ghost picture? I would say that SCART cable that you tired is wronly wired.

[lassie]

Do you have also 3 SCART cabels?

Do you see ghost picture? I would say that SCART cable that you tired is wronly wired.

Hi its the same scart cable i use, i only have one that is special made for the amiga. I just use that one  between all the amigas i have :-)

[nOw2]

The A2000 can develop a fault which leads to colour not being shown in some circumstances. Are you able to test on a monitor? (VGA adaptor + ECS chipset or Amiga monitor)

My A2000 shows monochrome on TVs using any A520 RF modulator (used to work in colour long ago), but still works in colour on a monitor.

[lassie]

The A2000 can develop a fault which leads to colour not being shown in some circumstances. Are you able to test on a monitor? (VGA adaptor + ECS chipset or Amiga monitor)

My A2000 shows monochrome on TVs using any A520 RF modulator (used to work in colour long ago), but still works in colour on a monitor.

Hi on my old amiga monitor the colour is just fine, but with all the televisions it is black and white

[blakespot]

As far as I know all A2000's output greyscale via the composite out. This has been the case with the two units I've owned. It's a known thing. As far as I recall, an A520 is needed to get composite out of an A2000 -- well, short of using non-Commodore solutions.


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[utri007]

Is it so that 2 that work are old crt tvs and non working is lcd-tv?

Are you sure that cable is wired correctly? Like this : http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/Amiga_SCART/amiga_scart.html

Open it and check

[lassie]

Thanks i have a look at it :-)

[lassie]

Hi its the same television i have tried, all crt

[Darrin]

PAL v NTSC models?  Amiga monitors don't care and will display both, but your TV might only support one mode.

[Zac67]

On RGB it doesn't matter whether NTSC or PAL, there's no color encoding at all.

The only way to get monochrome is with composite (which doesn't come out of the DB-23 port) or a (very strange) short between R, G, and B...

Is the picture slightly blurred (=composite) or really crisp?

[lassie]

hi i would say the picture is very crisp

[Zac67]

Hmm...

Pin 22 carrying +12V?

Pins 3, 4, and 5 separated by ~150 Ohms?

Possibly some kind of modification from a previous owner?

[Digiman]

Amiga SCART RGB and 1084 monitor lead use the same pins and same signals for image generation so the only thing that makes sense is a grounding issue as your monitor uses 9 pin D connector? (SCART has more than 1 ground pin but 9 pin monitor cable has just 1 IIRC).

[TomJ]

the composite is black and white out on 500's and 2000's I don't know why they changed it the 1000's had color. I will look for an old article telling how to modify it.