S-Video connectors have separate luminance (B&W) and chrominance signals.
Your symptoms are those of a bad connection on either pin 2 or 4, those responsible for chrominance signals. Check the connections and the cable. Try gently wiggling the connectors when the image is displaying. A flash of color imagery indicates that it is indeed a bad contact, hopefully in the cable (which can be replaced cheaply).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video
Testimonial: "I'll give that a try,but I have two separate set-ups,same equipment and they both have the same problem.I'm wonderin if it's a config problem.Thank u"
Just to be on the safe side, try cycling the Color System under Video controls. You're sending a NTSC signal, but the monitor is by default in Auto mode and could, conceivably, recognize it as something else.
A possibility I don't like is that your monitor is NTSC 4.43 (NTSC 4.4) while the VCR is NTSC 3.58 (NTSC 3.5). You can find more details here
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-...
...I don't know how S-Video would interact with that, but it could be you need a frequency shifter for the chroma signal. Or maybe the VCR could be tuned to send out NTSC 4.4 instead of NTSC 3.5. Check the manuals for the exact NTSC "version" of both appliances.
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