*Problem solved*

[Zukatah]

Edit: My video card fan was clogged with dust. After cleaning it up everything's back to normal!

Prior to today, I've been using my trusty Viewsonic E771 17" monitor that was dying slowly on me. Since my father bought himself a Samsung 213T, he gave me his IBM E94 19" monitor. My videocard is a Gainward GeForce3 64mb (not overclocked) and everything was great until the monitor change.

Now, everything's perfectly normal in Windows but when I try to play a game (I've tried World of Warcraft and Counter Strike), the game freezes before it reaches the first screen. I can hear the music skipping and I get white and red dots all over the screen. If I try to move the mouse, there seems to be a movement in the dots, it's like a big white square that's moving, pretty strange!

So far, I've tried playing with the resolution, the refresh rate, installed DirectX 9.0c, the newest nVidia drivers and even installed the drivers of my monitor so Windows recognizes it as an IBM E94 instead of a Plug and Play monitor. I've simply run out of ideas of how I could possibly correct this problem as everything was normal yesterday before I did the switch.

If you have any idea of how to solve this problem, this would be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

[Zukatah]

I've tried with NHL 2004 and it does the same thing. Everything's fine, I get to see all the menus but as soon as there is some 3d the game crashes. I guess it's not the monitor that's causing the problem but the video card. I'll try to see if I can fix the problem by checking the connections once again (although the image is fine in 2D) or could it be my GeForce3 that is letting go on me?