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majorhavoc   10-12-2008 at 11:42:02 PM

for the last month my screen at times turns light pink and flickers, is my vid card or monitor going bad thanks

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roadrunner197069   10-12-2008 at 11:57:11 PM
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Boy you cant get any more vauge can you?

WoW, you have a monitor a video card. Nice rig.

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eodeo   10-13-2008 at 12:16:12 AM
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i'd bet its 8800gtx or some other undercooled g80 nvidia chip, with poor-to-no-cooling on vidram

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geofelt   10-13-2008 at 02:52:46 AM
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roadrunner197069 wrote :

Boy you cant get any more vauge can you?

WoW, you have a monitor a video card. Nice rig.



eodeo wrote :

i'd bet its 8800gtx or some other undercooled g80 nvidia chip, with poor-to-no-cooling on vidram



Check his configuration; it is very good.

To answer the OP, It sounds like a failing monitor to me.

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kamkal   10-13-2008 at 03:33:59 AM
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try a diff screen if available

is your monitor running VGA? if so is the cable bad?

if you gfx card has two outputs, try both

troubleshooting FTW :)

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majorhavoc   10-13-2008 at 03:07:25 PM
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I have a second output on my vid card I'll try that and borrow a monitor thanks for the input

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geofelt   10-13-2008 at 05:15:55 PM
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majorhavoc wrote :

I have a second output on my vid card I'll try that and borrow a monitor thanks for the input


You might want to try your monitor on a second PC.

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majorhavoc   10-17-2008 at 08:17:29 PM
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I switched outputs and the flickering seemed to go away but started doing it again but is less freqent does this mean my vid card is going bad?

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geofelt   10-17-2008 at 08:26:50 PM
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majorhavoc wrote :

I switched outputs and the flickering seemed to go away but started doing it again but is less freqent does this mean my vid card is going bad?




Have you updated the video card driver to currency?

Before you start replacing things, isolate the problem. Try your monitor in another PC, or try a known good monitor on your PC.
If you can't do this, my best guess is a bad monitor. If you get a new one, make certain that you can return it if it does not fix the problem.

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majorhavoc   10-21-2008 at 02:46:05 PM
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tried my monitor on a friends computer and it worked fine, he suggested to try installing the software for the monitor and it works fine with the latest stuff form viewsonic thanks for the input.

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geofelt   10-21-2008 at 04:33:45 PM
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majorhavoc wrote :

tried my monitor on a friends computer and it worked fine, he suggested to try installing the software for the monitor and it works fine with the latest stuff form viewsonic thanks for the input.


Good job!

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