So I bought a PSone LCD for my projector, already modded from a member here. Now, how the heck do I get a darn display ??


I've downlaoded powerstrip, followed the guides I've found online ( very brief not detailed ) and tried to duplicate the settings... Problem is when I apply them, it screws up my primary display.

I have a very nice PCIexpress GeForce 7800GT video card. I plugged the PSone in the 2ndary monitor slot and even tried setting up desktop cloning.

I loaded powerstirp on my laptop, and I then plugged the Psone lcd into my laptop and tried to get a display there. No love.

Do I now have to go hunt down another video card for my system?

Most if not all nVidia cards have TV out so I'd use that first just to get an image on the screen or dive it with a DVD just to make it work. This gets you basic NTSC quality at 320x240, the VGA hack is a stepup in quality for that you need to tak some wires on the board and modify your screen setup. You're a little light on details but changing parameters on the second video port shouldn't hurt your primary display.

I remember seeing a post a while back about someone having problems getting powerstrip to work with their PSOne LCD on a DVI connector (using a dvi-vga adapter)
Is that what you are trying to do?

Also, most laptops only let you set the external display to the same res as the laptops lcd.

I would try finding a cheap pci VGA card known to work with the psone.

Thanks guys..


Yes I'm trying to use it on my DVI out with a VGA adapter. The VGA hack has already been applied to the psone. I was able to get a display when I plugged it into the primary slot... but that was only momentarily untill it the windows splash screen... I wasnt able to see anything to make any powerstrip changes.

I will try to find a PCI video card that i can put in my box. That will work ?

its a big problem.. most new video cards cannot run the PSone LCD with the VGA hack.. ive talked to people who have tried several and i have tried a few myself.. and none can with the PSone as a secondary, or even primary monitor..

Only way was to do composite input.

I know of only one way to guarantee it to work.. and thats to use an old Matrox Mystique video card..

theres a few out there.. 200 and 400 i think.. both work. and can be found on ebay for very cheap..

Only get the mystique, the matrox milleniums dont work. and its PCI so you need a slot.

then just plug in the psone into the mystique (yes you can have 2 video cards running at once) and start powerstrip and set it to the 640i acrade preset and presto.. it works like a charm.

Downside is its only a 8mb card so you are limited on 3d and stuff.

So i need to build the converter as seen here
http://starfox.ucc.asn.au/carcomp/matrixpc/TTL_SYNC.gif

??

on the left side, i see that is VGA... on the right it says PSX... so soder from the playstation to this board im supposed to try and build, then from the vga to the other side?

you can build that converter, but unless you know what you are doing its not really as simple as buying a matrox card from ebay..

well, I want to watch movies, and i'd like to play my games once in a while on the new projector...

matrox doesn't support the 3d right?

I suppose if I wanted to play games and such I should have decided to build a 15" pj... ?

well you can still use mulitple inputs on that screen.. you have the VGA mod on there already, you can also use the regular composite input for gaming.

But seriously.. its not gonna be pretty.. I was VERY unhappy with my 2.5" (slide projector) and my 5" psone projector.

Im finnaly pleased with my 15" Punisher style projector.