help with Gamecube Component Hookup
 

When I hooked up the component inputs, the screen does not display color. Anyone have any luck getting the component video hookup to work on the CUBE?

You have your cables in wrong. Put each cable in its correct jack and voila color!

Are you holding down B when you turn on the console?

i tried that. i toggled between progressive scan and not progressive scan. it didn't seem to matter.

This may be a dumb question but are you plugging it into a component input and not a composite one? I say this because if you plug the green cable from the component cable into a standard composite input's video jack all you'll get is a B&W picture...

i'm plugging it into a component input.

mine's hooked up fine without issue

My component cable has been working great. The only possibility I can think of is that you may still have your composite video input still plugged in. You have to keep the composite audio plugged in, but you can't have both component video and composite video. Also, as someone else in the thread mentioned, be sure that the colors match up, I know that I had my blue and green wrong at first because it was so dark behind my TV that both looked similar. If you've tried all of this, check with your TV manual, or call Nintendo to have them send you a new one. Assuming you are using the official cables.

Mine works no problem.

the only thing i can think of is that i have a composite video (not gamecube related) hooked up to input one, while my component input is input two. maybe i have to take the other input out of input one before using the component input.

You shouldn't have to. As long as there is nothing else connected into that same component input, it should work fine....mine does. Did you get the cables direct from Nintendo?

yeah, i bought them from nintendo.com a couple weeks ago.

The only thing left is that your TV is not HDTV? Otherwise you should just call Nintendo and let them sort the problem out.

Can't you use the component cable as long as you have a component input? I didn't think it had to be HDTV to utilize the component input (?) You just can't use the Progressive Capability without a progressive capable TV, right?

I use the component cables without an HDTV, so that is most certainly not the problem.

Yeah, the only time a HDTV will come into effect is if you hold down the B button while the game is loading to activate the Progressive Scan mode (For the games that offer it). If you're not doing that, any TV with a component input will accept the signal.