"pixel flicker" with FX 5200

[holgan]

Hi peoples,
i have had an fx 5200 128mb agp card for about 5 months. i found the card was faulty and returned it due the the dual head not working. i have now got my replacement card and found that i am now getting a "pixel flicker" of some sort which i cant seem to get rid of. also every now and them the screen goes black and comes back agian. I have tryied older versions of driver to see if that was the issue and still no resolution. i have also tried uninstalling the VIA AGP 3.0 driver becuase i have heard that someimes that they cuase issues but still agian no resolution to the issue. this is a list of all the thing that i have tried to fix the issue. NOTE that the old 5200 worked fine expect for the dual head.also included system spec's

Change PSU
Dissconnect all componets
changed ram
drivers both video and mother board.
change appeture size.

system specs
Cel 1.7
512Mb ram
VIA P4XB-RA mobo
120gb HDD
onbrd sound
cd-rw
DVD
network card.

people i now who r helping me tell me that is it something else in my computer but i do not believe them as it worded fine with a TNT2 and the old 5200 that was replaced. any help on this would be great.
thnx
holgan

 

[ski]

If you still have the TNT2 card(or can borrow another card), the see if the system works ok with it installed.
If it does, then the new card is bad. RMA it.

 

[norty303]

Don't forget with nVidia cards you may need to completely eradicate the old drivers before you can satisfactorily install the new ones.

The detonator Destroyer is available at

http://www.chill-tek.com/downloads/nvidia-drivers.html

but you may need to confirm if it works under WinXP as older versions don't.

Can anyone give some more info on this...

 

[SkipCox]

There are other driver eradicators available for download but I believe the card needs an RMA. You might also, in addition to the TNT2 card, try about any ATI Radeon based card to see how that works with your via chipset.

Skip

http://home.comcast.net/~skip9/index.html

http://scc.i8.com

 

[Lemon13]

lower hardware acceleration by one step (display properties), disable agp fast write in bios/display properties

 

[LieutenantFecal]

I have had the same issue when running my FX 5200. My screen will often flicker black, especially when playing video files or moving pictures of any kind.

I have found that turning down hardware acceleration to the third notch (the one that turns off all DirectX accelerations) fixes this problem. However, as a gamer, I would like to correct this issue in a way that allows me to turn my acceleration back on.

I anyone has any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

 

[holgan]

Hey Guys. Thanks for all the help. yes the acclerationg thingy did fix the issue.. but.... there goes all my games that i were playing. so... i invested a little bit and upgrade to an ATI 9600 hmmmm... nice... as i was saying.. the ati didnt have any issue... so i stuck with it.. thanks for all the help.

 

[dakota81]

I don't know if the FX5200 was in the mix... the FX5600's & FX5900's had terrible problems with pixel flickering on people's computers. The solution (or workaround rather) was to use the DVI port with the DVI-VGA adapter to hook up the monitor.

 

[LieutenantFecal]

Surely there must be another way... buying another video card or some pricey adapter seems unnecessary. I didn't always have this problem... it is a recent development.

Perhaps we have something else in common other than our 5200's, holgan. I first began to notice my screen flickering after my computer got what Norton Antivirus called "Download.Trojan." Maybe this is where your troubles began as well?

 

[ski]

I've seen where certain video cards will not run properly with specific MB's, and the only way to fix the problem is to install a different card.

 

[LieutenantFecal]

My MB and vid card have worked fine together for a long time... this seems to be a recent development, but thank you for your input.

OK, stop me if I'm wrong, but if turning down the hardware acceleration until all DirectX features are turned off works, then is it possible that some part of DirectX has corrupted? I've tried reinstalling the newest version, but no luck.

Also, I'd like to echo holgan's appreciation. Thank you to everyone for your help.

 

[Bobkat37]

Hi I don't know if I have the same problem but I had motherboard re-newed, found I had a problem with games, any button that was on screen in a game had tearing down the screen from it also some would go like there was something to do with triangulation (I had triangles of the button colour appearing from them
I have tried most of the slowing down settings,new card (same kind) reinstalling from scratch, and also am at a loss to know what else to try.