Will this VGA to S-Video Adapter work with Intel X3100 GPU?

I own an HP 2510p Laptop with Intel X3100 graphics, I want to get this VGA to S-Video/Composite adapter as my girlfriend has an older TV with no VGA input or anything like that. But it says under the description

"Your video card MUST be able to support s-Video or Composite out through it's VGA port. This is known as a TV out function"

I am pretty sure that the 3100 has supports this since the docking station I own for it has an s-video output and the graphics driver has an Intel TV Wizard but I just want to confirm, not a big deal as it is only like $5 shipped but I would like to know if it will work rather than being let down when I try it myself.

Thanks

 

I can't be sure, but I would guess that the X3100 (being a relatively low-end card) doesn't support composite out. To be safe, I would just go with the converter box they sell, since that will work, guaranteed:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10114&cs_id=1011407&p_id=4724&seq=1&format=2

 

I've looked at tha 965 express datasheet. The CRT (VGA) and TV-out signals are via separate pins. Meaning if want to use the VGA port it would require some sort of converter. Might be an idea to look for a cheap docking station. The connector on the side must pass thru those signals. I guess it would be possible to attach on to that connector directly if you knew the pinout and had a tiny mating plug to give s-video out.

 

THANK you! So you are saying that the s-video signals pass though the connector on the side that is used to connect it to the docking station rather than via the VGA port correct? So it would not be capable of sending an s-video signal out via VGA making that adapter useless for me.

I could possibly figure something out if I could get the pinout for the dock connector and figure out what does what, I am assuming there are prob 4 pins dedicated to s-video Luminance, Chrominance and a ground for each possibly. If I knew which pins carried those signals I could try something out by cannibalizing a broken dock I have at work for the dock side connector.

 

Easy - continuity test the svideo connector's pins on the docking station's docking connector using a dmm. Please document and post here

 

So you are saying just take a muti-meter and stick one end in the pinout on the s-video dock output and then put the other end on each pin on the dock connector until I get a reading and know a signal is flowing to that pin? I can def do that and post the results once I have them.

 

Yep - once you know that, then can pull apart a docking station, taking just the docking connector and attaching an svideo port on the end of it. Would be useful to know. There's over 50 pins on the NC2400/2510P/2530P docking connector, which correlates nicely to the port count:

4 USB ports, 4 wires each = 16 wires
RJ-45 network connector = 8 wires
Audio in=2 wires
Audio out=2 wires
S-video out=4 wires
VGA=15 wires

 

Alright sounds good, one more question, should I just take an s-video cable, cut one end of it off and then just solder the correct wires to the corresponding pins on the other end of the dock connector? Or is there a better way of doing it?

 

That's what I'd be attempting to do.Please post on NBR which are the s-video pins for others to perhaps do the same. Really wish I knew what that docking connector is so could get a cheap blank somewhere.

 

I will def take some pictures and post how I did it if I attempt this. I am going to ask one of the R&D guys at work to help me since he has better soldering skills than I.