XP + AIW Radeon = Toasted Monitor!

[halldav3]

So I put my new pc together, slapped in the AIW Radeon and proceeded to boot. Posts fine, I go into the bios, set a few things and boot into XP. XP detects my AIW, loads some drivers (without asking me), the monitor resets and BOOM, it looks like I'm on an acid trip. The screen is rotated about 20 degrees to the right, the brightness and contrast are pegged and the image is a single sinusoidal wave running from top to bottom ... nothing that pincushion or any other setting is gonna fix. Well, I figure something is hosed in XP and I reboot. Much to my horror, the bios screen looks exactly the same as XP! Now this is almost funny. I hit the menu wheel on my monitor (all adjustments are onscreen through this single wheel) and the menus are in Japanese! So I figure out how to get back to the English menus and discover that all of the settings are pegged, brightness, contrast, pincushion, unbalance, etc. I return everything to the 50% setting which takes care of the brightness, contrast, and rotation, but the wave in the image remains. The only thing that I can figure is that the AIW somehow pegged the saved settings in the monitor ... including some factory settings which I don't have menu access to. Has anyone seen anything like this? Is there anything I can do?

Thanks

 

[jamesbond007]

Search for some ways and see if there is a reset function on your monitor. Every monitor I have used to date that has a OSD for settings has ALWAYS had a reset function. Look for it, and reset it. If that doesn't work, it looks like you're gonna have to send it back or exchange it at a local store.

Good luck mate!

Oh yeah, try degaussing the screen. Maybe that will do something even though it wasn't initially caused by magnetic interference, but maybe could set it back.

That's all for now.