FECK! Cant get this pos ati tv adapter to work!

I bought the purple ati component tv adapter a long time ago, never got around to hooking it all up until now.

I ran into a few problems beforehand..
My 9800 pro is connected via dvi to my lcd monitor, so i had to buy a vga-to-dvi adapter get it all hooked up.

So its setup like this, bear with me.
DVI port on vid card is connected to lcd monitor.
VGA port on vid card is connected to the vga-dvi adapter, then from that to the ati dvi-component adapter, then from that component to my tv.

Now, ive been fiddling with this fuckin catalyst crapware for the past few hours and im pissed! The only time i can get any visible image is 800x600 60hz, even then the picture on the tv is a dark purple and it just fucked. Ive got the dip switches set to 720p and 1080i because my tv DOES support those.

Any idea as to what im missing or is this vga-dvi adapter the culprit, somehow changing signal information before getting passed to the actual dvi-component adapter??

EDIT: so now i have my lcd connected via vga and the tv connected to the dvi port minus the vga-dvi adapter.. Everythings working fine.

One nitpick you guys might be able to figure out..
Catalyst wont allow separate resolutions in "Clone main with HDTV", it'll only allow different res'es if i have the mode set to extend main to hdtv.

Is there a way i can clone my desktop of my lcd which is 1680x1050 to my tv but my tv display be 1280x720???

You need to switch - DVI to the component adapter to your TV, and then VGA to your PC. Give that a try.

yep, i did that and it resolved the visual problems.. but re-read the edit now..

I ran into similar problems with my Nvidia adapter and just used UltraMon. It's been a while since I've used ATI so I have no idea if that would work for you though.

ultramon solved that problem, but damn! its sucking the life out of my computer.. dunno if its my old 512mb/1.9ghz system.. but sheesh.. lol
i like the idea with this monitor software and everything is peachy but everything is slow to the crawl using the mirror/independant res options..
theres also lots of flicker on the tv, im hoping im not damaging it by using 60hz, lol

Sweet! I'm batting 1000!

Another 512MB of ram and you'd probably be OK for a while. My daughter is running an Athlon 2400+ which runs at 1.6ghz and with 1GB of DDR she can even run Oblivion at a respectable framerate. Which ATI do you have again?

the old 9800 pro

What TV do you have all this pumped into? Could be the refresh, could be data loss in the cables.

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If I had to guess I'd say it's your video card, but I dunno. I've only interfaced one LCD TV with a PC before and it used VGA and there was neither HD nor problems.

EDIT: I read just this morning in Maximum PC that some refresh rates / settings from a PC can damage an HDTV. I'd check the manual or Sony website just to be safe.