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Old June 17th, 2003, 11:07 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Ack! What's wrong with my monitor?!?!?

This just started this evening...I don't really know how to explain what it looks like, so just take a look at the attached image.

Never seen that before...what does it mean? Is my monitor gonna die soon?

*note* My first attempt at attaching the pic said it was too large...and when I resized it (using Paint) it chopped off a good portion of it rather then making the image smaller. Oh well...you can still see what the problem is.
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Old June 17th, 2003, 11:12 PM     #2 (permalink)
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I have no idea why cats would want to fight on your monitor










J/K IMO It looks like more of a video problem than a monitor problem. Did you recently change vid drivers or overclock your card?

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Old June 17th, 2003, 11:15 PM     #3 (permalink)
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If we can see that, it's a video card problem
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Old June 17th, 2003, 11:19 PM     #4 (permalink)
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Unless of course you took a picture of your monitor. To me, it looks like a driver issue. What card do you have?
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Old June 17th, 2003, 11:20 PM     #5 (permalink)
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My system is overclocked...but not my video card. I'm one of those fortunate ppl that has an Epox 8RDA+ board that locks the pci and agp buses.

Btw...here's my specs:

Athlon XP 1700+ @ 2.2Ghz on Epox 8RDA+
2 x 256mb of PC2700 Crucial memory
Radeon 9000 Pro 128mb
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Old June 17th, 2003, 11:23 PM     #6 (permalink)
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Yep, it's probably the video card or he driver. I've run into some cases like that...
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Old June 17th, 2003, 11:25 PM     #7 (permalink)
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Something else I just noticed...and I should have mentioned this the first time around but when I look at the screen I either see very few of the pixels or none at all...yet when I do a screenshot, they're all over the place!
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Well the first thing's i would try would be to reinstall the drivers and to re seat the video card.
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Increasing your FSB also affects your video card doesn' it? As well as your sub-systems.
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Yep increasing the FSB does increase the AGP speed, but if its an nforce2 motherboard I beleive it keeps the PCI/AGP speeds locked at whatever the normal operating speed is ment to be.
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