PCGUY112887
10-06-08, 01:51 AM
Alright, I am having a few odd occurrences with my BFG GeForce 9800 GTX+
I am running vista x64, first odd thing I notice is when vista first starts up, as it goes to show my login screen, the screen sorta "tears" as it shows up. Like, you see part of it with a big portion blacked out (different black lines across the screen). As soon as it shows up, it's gone, goes away in a blink of an eye. I am running a dual monitor setup, and this happens on the monitor I have set to primary.
The real issue I have had is sometimes when I let the screensaver kick on and vista turns the displays off, I can't get my primary display to come back. My second display will, but I can't get the first one... monitor just keeps searching for a source. If I make something happen on that window (without seeing it), it tries to turn the monitor back on... but it stays black. Today I managed to get it to come back on (just did all of a sudden) and the picture was super fuzzy. It was very weird, then I tried to turn the monitor off and back on, and when I turned it on it went searching for signal again.
Here is the odd fix for it... just restart the computer, and it's all fine.
Of course there is the fact that one of my 22" Samsung monitors is going bad, but I used these monitors just fine for a while with my old PC... this one is the first thing giving me troubles... and restarting a PC shouldn't fix the monitor. A new x64 driver update came out not long ago... tried that but it didn't help anything.
The anti static bag the card came in (from newegg) had obviously been opened and repackaged 3 times (3 stickers on the bag) so I am really starting to wonder...
Any there any difference in new DVI cables and old DVI cables?
I am running vista x64, first odd thing I notice is when vista first starts up, as it goes to show my login screen, the screen sorta "tears" as it shows up. Like, you see part of it with a big portion blacked out (different black lines across the screen). As soon as it shows up, it's gone, goes away in a blink of an eye. I am running a dual monitor setup, and this happens on the monitor I have set to primary.
The real issue I have had is sometimes when I let the screensaver kick on and vista turns the displays off, I can't get my primary display to come back. My second display will, but I can't get the first one... monitor just keeps searching for a source. If I make something happen on that window (without seeing it), it tries to turn the monitor back on... but it stays black. Today I managed to get it to come back on (just did all of a sudden) and the picture was super fuzzy. It was very weird, then I tried to turn the monitor off and back on, and when I turned it on it went searching for signal again.
Here is the odd fix for it... just restart the computer, and it's all fine.
Of course there is the fact that one of my 22" Samsung monitors is going bad, but I used these monitors just fine for a while with my old PC... this one is the first thing giving me troubles... and restarting a PC shouldn't fix the monitor. A new x64 driver update came out not long ago... tried that but it didn't help anything.
The anti static bag the card came in (from newegg) had obviously been opened and repackaged 3 times (3 stickers on the bag) so I am really starting to wonder...
Any there any difference in new DVI cables and old DVI cables?