Weird Display problem.. Please assist

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DonnyTEN

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Greetings people.

Breifly put, i sold my PCI E graphics card to a distant friend of mine because hes into gaming and i no longer am, but when my monitor is connected to onboard video my picture is really fuzzy and distorts a lot, sort of like a rippling effect. I have installed the drivers for my onboard and the problem persists. I get the Rippling effect from the moment i cut the pc on.

The problem goes away when I switch the desktop resolution to 800x600, but the icons are extremely big and things dont fit the screen ( but the distortion, rippling/fuzziness ceases)i'm used to working at 1024x768 and this will not cut it for me..

Is there a solution to this problem? I also have the most recent set of drivers installed.

My Onboard Video is ATI Radeon Xpress 200 series.
I am using Windows XP pro Sp2.
Motherboard:Intel D101GGC
Pentium 4 3.0 ghz hyperthreading
Direct X9.0


Thanks
 
Might be a shot in the dark but try deguassing your monitor.

If that dosn't work try looking up the frequencies of your monitor, only to see if the monitor is out of frequency. Sometimes changing the resolution will put your monitor out of frequency and it makes the monitor distort and skew.
 
hmmm, didn't work.


seems like the resolution 800x600 gets rid of the problem, but everything becomes to bloated for the screen to capture.
 
You state that the occurrence is present the moment you turn the PC on, which rules out any driver problems. Is there any way you can test another monitor on the onboard? The fact that you can reduce resolution and the problem disappears seems important, but I can't make anything of it.
 
Can't see anything in the screenshot. Which leads away from the video card, and centers the problem straight on the monitor. Can you check to make sure the refresh rate stays the same when you raise the resolution? An lcd normally uses a 60hz refresh rate...
 
it stays the same. i've tried just about every refresh rate.

whats so special about 800x600? i never had this problem a while ago before i had purchased my pci e card.

a while ago i was able to set my monitor to 800x600 and still capture everything on the screen.
 
Could you tell us the native resolution of your LCD? Also, please let me know if your onboard GPU uses a DVI or analog output.

edit: Also, it'd help if you went into a little more detail on the problem. Could the "ripple effect" be described as sort of waves (lines as opposed to a circular ripple motion)? Is this a severe problem, that anyone using the computer would notice at once? Or just something that you picked up on being the owner?
 
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1,024 x 768 maximum resolution at 75 Hz maximum refresh rate.

"Could the "ripple effect" be described as sort of waves (lines as opposed to a circular ripple motion)?"

yep, i don't know how i can further elaborate on the problem, so that best sums it up.

and anyone would be able to notice it if they were to use the pc. well, my mom noticed it the moment she wanted to check her email.

heres my monitor

http://www.amazon.com/ViewSonic-VPA150-Flat-Panel-Monitor/dp/B00004Y7LH
 
I have an Acer desktop with integrated graphics that I believe does the same thing. I'm going to try to take a picture of it, hold on.

edit: Anything like this? This is a plain gray desktop (I don't have a good conversion program right now, so it's 1MB, sorry).

dscf3351zj4.jpg
 
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So are you saying you can notice it on start up? ie, with the black screen with all your various drives etc... before windows even begins to load? Or are we saying from the moment windows has loaded?
 
Well it has to be a faulty video card or screen. If you're confident the screen is fine then a cheap video card really is pennies these days. £30/$50/$60 or much less on ebay will get you one.

It would really be worth trying another screen though, if you can get a neighbours for a few minutes then do it.

It can't be a driver problem if it's messed up before windows (and therefore the drivers) have loaded.
 
fortyways said:
But the problem manifested after selling his other graphics card. Were you using a different monitor as well?
Click to expand...

So it must just be a dodgy onboard chip. I'd still check another screen first though, it costs nothing to do and definately rules it out; coincidences do happen quite a lot with computers I find
 
Yeah, but the fact that he post screenshots and they appear normal suggest his video card is fine; If the video card was producing the occurrence it should appear in a screenshot.

It still could be either or though, could be the cable itself too..
 
hmm.. welllllll


i did forget to mention the fact that i'm using a 50 ft vga cable.. BIG ROOM

heh, could that be the problem?

and if it seems to be the culprit then why weren't the present artifacts visible when i had the PCI E card installed? (only if the length of the cable could be taken into consideration)
 
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