is it my Monitor, vid card or other?

[Matrix78]

suddenly for no reason sometimes when i turn the PC on my screen is all messed up, its shifted to the left and wraps around itself and is all jittery and splotchy i have no idea what's caused this any ideas?? i have a brand new TI4200 graphics card altho the monitor is a bit old its never had problems

i try unpluging the monitor while its all fizzed out and then plug it back in and it's still fuzzy or i reset the PC and its still messed up, and then i rebbot again it goes back to normal so i dont know whats being flakey!!

help if ya can thanx!!

[itizme]

can you try the tv out to see if the problem follows?

[Matrix78]

when its flakey i cant boot into windows, it gets to the boot screen then goes all black before the logon screen would show up, good idea thow

now its doign it everytime i reboot, i have hit reset a dozen times before it "sync's" back in, this really sux

[Matrix78]

what happens when a GPU overheats???? cause i think that my be my problem... i just ook the card out and put some new AS3 in and its started w/o any problems. . . guess i'll wait a lil while and see if it happens a gain, in the mean time if anyone has any more sugestions please speek up

[Matrix78]

ok, this is really starting to suck, its perfect while the PC is running no problems what so ever, but as soon as i have to do a reboot it "wiggs" out and i have to puch the rest button a billion times till it boots up right?!?! i dont think it's heat anymore cuase i shut it off let it sit and the booted again and still the same crap, any ideas here would help, thanx!!!

[Matrix78]

bump

[sgamd]

have you tried jiggling the wires in the back? I'm not sure whats going on but my old 17"(just retired) would scramble and such until i messed with the video cable in the back. Something on the inside of my monitor is loose. its random though. Probably not whats going on with yours though. Just a thought.

[Matrix78]

yeah i dont think its the monitor anymore cause i can "giggle" the hell outta it and it doesnt go away/doesnt cause it, and when its in this F'd up mode i cant boot into windows so its gotta be hardware related, no the ? is, is it the AGP slot on the MoBo or the GPU thats causeing it, the card is in good and tight i try wiggleing it when the screen is messed and it has no effect, now it seems to be luck of the draw if it happends or not, i jsut rebooted 5 times and nothing then the last time messed up again :mad:

[Matrix78]

movin on up. . . .

[cmcquistion]

Can you try another AGP card to see if the problem is consistent, or put you video card into another computer and see if it keeps doing it?