- Jun 11, 2002
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I have a major problem with my display
Last night all of a sudden during a game, the graphics became garbled and you could only see small sections of the screen clearly.
When returning to windows there are five vertical lines running down the screen plus fuzzy graphics behind the cursor. Upon restart these problems persist at the boot screen, with random garbled graphics on dos text and also the Dell Logo. I tried using a different monitor but it had the same effect. Hence it must be something to do with the actual computer. After opening the case and cleaning out the dust and checking connectors, when I turned the comp back on the problem seemed okay. However upon a screen resolution change the garbled graphics returned in the same way. Today when i turned the computer on the graphics are still garbled and now it would will not boot to windows the screen just goes black (sometimes the monitor goes to standby). The computer will run in safe mode however but half the screen is garbled still.
I have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Catalyst 5.1 so I tried upgrading to 5.2 but the computer could not install the new drivers - the screen keeps going black after restart.
I noted elsewhere on the board that this may be due to graphics card failure, is this the most likely cause. Is the only option to try another card and then if so purchase a new card? What card would you recommend for a DellDimension 8250, which is at least better to my Radeon 9700 Pro I think my motherboard only supports AGP 8x.
Thanks
Rupert
Last night all of a sudden during a game, the graphics became garbled and you could only see small sections of the screen clearly.
When returning to windows there are five vertical lines running down the screen plus fuzzy graphics behind the cursor. Upon restart these problems persist at the boot screen, with random garbled graphics on dos text and also the Dell Logo. I tried using a different monitor but it had the same effect. Hence it must be something to do with the actual computer. After opening the case and cleaning out the dust and checking connectors, when I turned the comp back on the problem seemed okay. However upon a screen resolution change the garbled graphics returned in the same way. Today when i turned the computer on the graphics are still garbled and now it would will not boot to windows the screen just goes black (sometimes the monitor goes to standby). The computer will run in safe mode however but half the screen is garbled still.
I have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Catalyst 5.1 so I tried upgrading to 5.2 but the computer could not install the new drivers - the screen keeps going black after restart.
I noted elsewhere on the board that this may be due to graphics card failure, is this the most likely cause. Is the only option to try another card and then if so purchase a new card? What card would you recommend for a DellDimension 8250, which is at least better to my Radeon 9700 Pro I think my motherboard only supports AGP 8x.
Thanks
Rupert
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