X800 PRO. Help

[MatrixVPR]

I'm getting some problems here, I don't know if its broken or if I need a new power supply, or what? think the zalman 400W I have is enough (i've asked around too and they say its enough), but I'm getting a weird problem where an area of my display is shaking. Not flickering but more like a jitter. It's hard to explain. It moves left and right once in a while like its having muscle spasms. It's not the whole screen, just the middle left area. I noticed this only a couple of days ago and seems to be getting worse. I've tried different res and refresh rates and also drivers for my monitor. I haven't tried other vid card drivers besides Cat4.12.

AMD XP 2500+ @2.4, NF7-S, X800 Pro, 4 hdd's, 2 optical
drives, floppy, zalman 400W psu, I used omega 4.10 drivers.

 

[montag451]

i would think that would be a monitor or vga or mobo prob.
Would go for the first 2 more likely

 

[imported_jzimo]

I would try a diffrent drivers first to see if that fixes your problem. If it doesn't then I would try a known working videocard and moniter to see if the problem stops. I couldn't imagine it being anything other then those three things.

 

[MatrixVPR]

It's a power hungry card wouldn't lack of power cause insatbility? I'm thinking it's is most likely the MOBO or the Vidoe card but i'm really hoping its something like a driver. Thanks for the input! If anyone has had an known issues with cat 4.12 please let me know. This is for a friend that i sold the card and i really son't want him to think i sold him a dud! :|

 

[resStealth]

you might need to degause your monitor

 

[MatrixVPR]

Degause... I didn't think of that. I guess I would have to try another monitor

 

[Gentle]

Did you move anything near the monitor that has magnets in it?

Speakers?

Gentle

 

[MatrixVPR]

No speakers near the monitor. There were tough so it may have been something that had a lasting effect?

 

[GunDog]

Is there any pop's or hiss's from the monitor?

Have you tried to disconnecting and reconnecting the monitor cable?

I had a similar experience awhile back, the culprit was the ram had loosed in the socket.

 

[MatrixVPR]

Loose RAM... Ok well all these are good things to look for. If anyone else has any ideas let me know. I'm going to get all the sugestions together to give him so anything else will be great. Thanx

 

[Gentle]

Depending on if you know people...

The easiest thing to do to try and isolate this issue is to try the monitor on another computer.

If it works there, it's not the monitor and you can continue with further troubleshooting.

Gentle

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Gentle
Depending on if you know people...

The easiest thing to do to try and isolate this issue is to try the monitor on another computer.

If it works there, it's not the monitor and you can continue with further troubleshooting.

Gentle

And be sure to use it for awhile in the other location. If it's a loose connection inside the monitor, the jostling of moving it to another location may affect the connection.

 

[MatrixVPR]

I think we figured it out! The monitor seems to be where the issue lies. We did just what you seid Gentle but now he's worried that if he gets a new monitor that the X800 will mess up the new one since the issues started after the new card was installed. I didn't think a video card could do that but i guess if the card sends some crazy signals to the monitor then it could mess it up. I seems to me that if a video card was sending a crazy enough signal to the monitor to mess it up and cause all these problems that hooking up a new monitor wouldn't help because the card itself would be having some pretty serious issues to mess up a monitor. I don't know though!? Also, no speakers ever were near the monitor because he uses only headphones.

 

[MatrixVPR]

Ah, very good point Jeff!