Weird Picture

[marcusmco]

Hello,

The picture produced by my computer has most often weird colours and vertical lines. I have tried to use another display and I have also tried different cables. In addition to this I have also tried to connect the display to both the mother board socket and the separate graphic card (DVI) socket. I suppose it can't be a problem with the graphic card itself then? Anyway, does anyone have any idea about this problem?

Cheers,
Marcus

 

[ceh4702]

And why cant it be a problem with the video card?

I think it is either the monitor or the card.

I give that 33.33333 percent chance of being correct.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[paparazi]

If as you say, you have connected this monitor to both the motherboard socket (by that I'm assuming you mean onboard graphics?) AND to the DVI on a seperate graphics card? and you are still getting weired colours then it's got to be the monitor it's self.
BUT! you mention you tried to use another display! So? was that the same?
Perhaps you could actually say what results you had from the different things you have tried, because, in truth, your description of both fault and diagnostic thus far, is a little unclear.
A full run down of your setup would also help.
Martin

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[BadBigBen]

Two ideas:

1.) Huge Magnets somewhere near the Monitors or Cables...

2.) GFX Card memory messes up when it gets too hot... see if there is dust build up on the GPU-HS...


Ben

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[NeoGreen]

I have the same problem, I am running a KVM cable to a computer running Windows XP and another Ubuntu Linux. On my XP computer I dont have a problem, but when I switched to my Ubuntu computer I get those scratchy vertical lines. So,what I did was cleaned my mb and all other components and know I don't seem to have that problem. Well it hasn't resurfaced. Oh, yeah man my mb was dusty, I had to use two cans of compressed air (16 oz cans)

 

[marcusmco]

Sorry about the confusion. Paparazi is correct, I tried to connect the monitor to both the onboard graphics unit (analogue) as well as a separate graphics card (DVI). I got the same result with both set-ups. In addition, I also tried to connect the monitor to my laptop (analogue connection) and then everything worked fine. It is really strange.

In terms of huge magnets, I don't think that is the case since after the picture became faulty I moved the computer to another house. I can always check the graphics card to make sure it is not very dusty I suppose.

Cheers,
Marcus