Re: XP display problems
- From: "VanguardLH" <VanguardLH@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:10:25 -0600
"ellisonms" wrote in message news:FF76819D-7D15-47D0-A2E9-7C1D15A341FC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
When I turn the machine on, all is well. Then, after a few minutes, small
dashes appear here and there on the screen. The number of these dashes
increase the longer I stay on appearing as if it is some sort of cumulative
problem manifesting itself. As the dashes fill in the screen, they fill in
as columns of dashes from the top of the screen to the bottom, eventually
looking like long zippers and rendering the screen virtually useless. It
doesn't matter what site I'm looking at as they appear on all screens but in
differing places as I change sites.
Further, as the dashes start, the display also has a tendency to freeze up
for 5 to 20 seconds. As it does so, the pictures and text are garbled.
Sometimes when the freeze ends the pics and text are restored, somtimes not
and I need to slide the slider down past the garbled area and then back up to
restore the display.
All in all, I'm about to chuck the whole system at this point. As that
would be an expensive option, I'm thankful for any and all ideas.
Are you overclocking the video card? If so, try it without the overclocking.
Even if you are overclocking, many video cards sold commercially are overclocked. Users will read the specs and see one brand seems better than another for the same GPU and buy the better spec card. However, that card was better because the vendor overclocked that card. For example, the XFX and BFG brands sell overclocked video cards. If there is "OC" in the model name or title for the product, it probably means "OverClocked" but I see that designation is waning as vendors want to hide why their spec is artificially higher.
Overclocking you motherboard can also result in overclocking the PCI bus and that would affect your video card.
That it worked before and is now failing is indicative of hardware fatigue. You never mentioned what is your "machine". If a desktop, and rather than tossing the entire system, why wouldn't you instead consider getting the video card replaced (if you can't fix it)? If you can't handle replacing the video card, pay a tech to do it for cheaper than buying a whole new system. Have you even tried installing a new or older version of the video card's driver?
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