Trouble with RGB cable please help?

Question

Ok, I have a VGA to RCA RGB cable... I'm trying to hook it up with my computer to the TV which only has the RCA jacks Red White and Yellow, I connected it perfectly as instructed (Red to red, Green to white, Blue to yellow) yet I still get a flickering and blurry white screen and barely can see the desktop, you can see the desktop but not enough to do anything.

how can I get this to work?

Answer 1

That wont work.

The yellow is the only one meant for video in a yellow red white setup. The red and white are audio. The red green blue wire is video only. Your tv would have to have red, white, red, blue, green in which case you could skip the first red and the white, plugging the others into their corresponding colors. If it only has red, white, yellow, you'll have to have a different wire.

Answer 2

If the adapter is green,blue,& red rca cables and your tv is yellow, red and white then try connecting just the green on the adapter and the yellow on the tv.

Answer 3

It sounds like your cable is actually VGA to Component video (the red, blue, green RCA connection), not VGA to Composite (the yellow RCA connection, usually seen accompanied with white and red cables for audio).

This is further proven by the fact that the VGA output from your computer obviously doesn't transmit any audio data, so really a VGA to Composite A/V cable would be a useless thing.

It's even further proven by the fact that VGA and Component video are very similar video data transfer methods, and similar in quality too. Unlike Composite, which would actually require some kind of bulky, externally-powered device in order to convert the video to the completely different composite format.

Yes, what you have is most definitely a VGA to Component video cable. You are plugging into the wrong connection on your TV!