Monitor Issues

BattleToad · August 21st, 2004, 05:42 PM

Hey guys,
I have a 17" Philips CRT monitor, and every so often the screen will randomly go black and then display the error "Attention 32/202Hz Frequency out of Range" And in order for me to get back into windows I have to reboot.

What could cause this as it is quite annoying. It occurs while playing games and just doing general windows mantenence as well. It also displays it in the same box/text like manner as the display you get when you unplug your monitor cable from your computer. That crappy looking box, rather than a real computer error. So what do you think?

Here are the system specs, just incase people havent seen them in other threads.

Soyo KT600 Dragon Ultra Platinum
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
1GB (2 x 512) Kingston Hyper X PC3200
ATI Radeon 9800Pro 256MB

elmers · August 21st, 2004, 06:50 PM

Most likely you computer is crashing with no regard to the monitor.

**Whir** · August 21st, 2004, 07:02 PM

Sounds like a problem with the video card, or the drivers for the video card.

The Real Bingo · August 21st, 2004, 07:38 PM

Try lowering your refresh rate. Your resolution may be too high to run a somewhat high refresh rate. I know that comes up when I try to set my refresh rate too high.

Bovon · August 21st, 2004, 11:35 PM

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Try lowering your refresh rate.

I agree...just what is your current refresh rate BattleToad?...

BattleToad · August 22nd, 2004, 10:50 AM

Resolution is 1152x864 and refresh rate is 60hz

Detritus · August 22nd, 2004, 10:57 AM

Do you have the correct drivers installed for your monitor? If so make sure the box is checked that makes sure only supported refresh rates and resolutions are allowed.

BattleToad · August 22nd, 2004, 12:41 PM

I have the box checked that says "Hide modes this monitor cannot display". With that box checked I can display at 60 70 and 75Hz. I have tried all three (operating on 75Hz now), and it does the same with everything.

Bovon · August 22nd, 2004, 02:58 PM

Just for something to try...trying to narrow down the possibilities, reset your monitor to maybe 800 X 600 for a test..see if that changes anything.

BattleToad · August 22nd, 2004, 07:19 PM

I'm starting to think its a video card issue, but i dont know. Cause whenever I leave my computer on, for instance over night, or whenever, i'll usually just cut my monitor off. But when I come back to it ill cut it back on and nothing will show up. Its just a black screen, like the monitor will come back on, but it just wont display anything. When i try to hit the menu button on the monitor to bring up its dialog box nothing shows up either. But if I unplug it from the video card, i get the no signal message, but plugging it back in shows nothing, and I have to reboot to get anyhting to show up. Its a brand new video card and works perfect other than this, or is that the monitor messing up, cause i went with the cheapest crt on newegg.