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| Thread ID: 112276 | 2010-08-30 08:48:00 | Yes there is a problem | pctek (84) | Press F1 |
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| 1133081 | 2010-08-30 08:48:00 | www.pressf1.co.nz I took the monitor over to a friends and plugged it into her sons WinXP, 8600GT, VX2835wm system. It looked like rubbish. I downloaded the latest Nvidia driver - made no difference, messed with all settings - made no difference. Interesting his enormous lovely monitor also looks like crap, in the same way. It's not a large crap look - but it is there - when you know how it should look. It looks like the res is wrong - it's the only way I can explain it - not sharp like it should be. So, this was a Winxp system, 8600GT, hers is WIn7 64bit, and a HD4870. Nothing in common really. Her Win7 system detected the moniotor properly - with correct brand and model number - his Winxp system said it was a Plug and play monitor - ASUS do not have an actual monitor driver - I checked. So, any ideas why certain PCs will do this and others not? All I can think - my Win7 was installed on an LCD - her's wasn't, neither was this test Winx system I tried - although what difference that should make I don't know. It's not the monitor, that's been established. But why the weird look???? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1133082 | 2010-08-30 08:56:00 | A lot of Geforce 8000 series GPUs can become faulty, due to poor choice of lead-free die-to-pin connectors inside the chip, which degrade after thermal stress => picture becomes garbled or disappears altogether. Which I'm sure you know about... ...but that's probably not the issue here...? |
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| 1133083 | 2010-08-30 09:13:00 | Correct refresh rate? | fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1133084 | 2010-08-30 09:26:00 | Cleartype tuning maybe | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1133085 | 2010-08-30 10:52:00 | I have an XP machine with an 8600 GT card - struck problems when I foolishly ticked an Nvidia hardware update on Windows Updates. (Viewsonic monitor) | BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1133086 | 2010-08-30 10:59:00 | It's not a GPU issue. System 1: Win7 64bit, HD4870 LCD looks pixellated System 2: WinXP, 8600GT Any LCD connected looks pixellated My system: Win7 64bit, HD5970 - the same LCD looks great on mine. The only thing the first 2 systems have in common is that Windows was originally installed using a CRT monitor. CRT monitor looks fine. Its not the monitor, its not the GPU - that leaves what? Windows - it has to be. The Win 7 system correctly identifys the monitor and puts it in it's correct resolution - but, I suspect it isn't really. At least that is the only thing I can think of to cause the issue. And it's obviously not specific to certain WIndows cause both these people have the same issue using LCDs and they have different hardware and different versions of WIndows, which I never would have believed if I hadn't seen it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1133087 | 2010-08-30 21:49:00 | Bump | pctek (84) | ||
| 1133088 | 2010-08-30 22:07:00 | Got a theory -- tried to call -- stop yacking on the phone :p:lol: | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1133089 | 2010-08-30 22:52:00 | Yes, yes, was on the ph to Techmaster...Ubuntu downloading, will wander over to guinea pigs place and see what happens with his PC and then will probably have to get her to send her PC up too. Good idea the ubuntu test...... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1133090 | 2010-08-30 23:08:00 | It's not a GPU issue. System 1: Win7 64bit, HD4870 LCD looks pixellated System 2: WinXP, 8600GT Any LCD connected looks pixellated My system: Win7 64bit, HD5970 - the same LCD looks great on mine. The only thing the first 2 systems have in common is that Windows was originally installed using a CRT monitor. CRT monitor looks fine. Its not the monitor, its not the GPU - that leaves what? Windows - it has to be. The Win 7 system correctly identifys the monitor and puts it in it's correct resolution - but, I suspect it isn't really. At least that is the only thing I can think of to cause the issue. And it's obviously not specific to certain WIndows cause both these people have the same issue using LCDs and they have different hardware and different versions of WIndows, which I never would have believed if I hadn't seen it. What cable are they using PCT, the same as the CRT?, DVI? |
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