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OMG! What are those lines??!

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March 8, 2011 5:48:35 AM

Hi all! I got a question for you guys. Basically 2 days ago my monitors started showing some barely visible but continuous horizontal lines. They go from the bottom of the screen to the top. They are like the same color showing on the screen, but a little lighter. Barely visible but VERY annoying!!

I have 2 monitors:

Acer 18.5 in X1893H 1366 x 768 native res.
Hannspree 27.5 in HDTV ST289MUB 1920 x 1200 native res.

At first I thought it would be a defect from the HDTV that I am using as a monitor. It had already shown other barely visible and thinner lines earlier, but not as thick as the one now going through the screen. I barely started using it 10 days ago. But the horizontal thick line started 2 days ago.

What caught my attention is that now the Acer monitor is also showing some of those lines, moving faster along the screen, but otherwise very similar. That leads me to think it might be my video card. My other system specs are the following:

EVGA 9800GT
Antec Earthwatts 650W
Core2quad Q8200
ASUS p5KPL-AM SE Motherboard
4GB RAM
500GB HD

Any ideas of what it might be?

Should I be paranoid about gpu artifacting? I am not that much of a computer whiz and I've read some scary stories about video cards frying in this forum :ouch: 

Yesterday my pc BSOD on my brother while he was playing BF:BC2. Hopefully it is not related. I checked the temp right now (normal, internet surfin use) and it is at a healthy 46-54 degrees C temp with the fan at 30%. I don't think it had ever BSOD since I bought it a year ago... hope it is just a nasty coincidence.

What do you guys think might be the cause/solution? I don't have another video card to try out on my system, but I could plug it in directly from the mother board I guess and see if something changes...

ALL suggestions are welcomed :D  !!

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March 8, 2011 5:53:48 AM

have you tried using the other graphics card or using the onboard one to see if its your screens?
if it isnt your screens then maybe your 9800 gt is giving out.
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March 8, 2011 6:21:18 AM

alhanelem said:
have you tried using the other graphics card or using the onboard one to see if its your screens?
if it isnt your screens then maybe your 9800 gt is giving out.


I'll give it a shot definitely. Do I have to pull out the video card and indicate on bios to use the onboard or is there another way? I haven't done it before :na:  DD
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March 8, 2011 6:23:54 AM

yes you have to indicate in bios (unless you disabled it in device manager)
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