Just wanted to see if anyone could help out with my experience. I wanted to try playing Halo on my Hitachi 51 RPTV. I have the ATI 9800 installed so I plugged in the red component adapter into the video out on the card. When I attempted to plug in the component cables from the TV into the adapter I heard a pop and saw flash come from the back of the TV! I'm sure it's not a shock to some of you the input I was using is fried. I thought the problem might have been that the TV and PC were both powered on when I did this so I thought I'd give it another go with input # 2. Don't worry the TV is under Circuit City warrenty anyways so what the hell. So I turned off the TV and unplugged the PC. Now everything is hooked up and I turned the TV on. Ok...nothing blowing up, Let's try plugging PC power in... wooooow - nevermind! As soon as I plugged the power cable into the back of the PC the lights dimmed and a loud buzzing occured!?! Does anyone have any ideas on what is going on here??? Thanks.
Are you sure you're hooking it up the component input and not mixing it up with Video + 2 audio type inputs (or outputs) that look very similar - both are just 3 RCA plugs? Wow, that sounds horrible. Hope you figure it out.