- Joined
- Oct 24, 2003
- Location
- Buffalo, NY
Screen flicker has me baffled
I've noticed over the past week that the bottom of my screen has a faint horizontal line that bounces up and down about 2 inches from the bottom of the screen. Almost like a wave. The odd thing is I've moved my fans around, unplugged the n/b fan from the mobo and put it into the psu, changed the agp voltage from 1.5 to 1.6 to 1.7, moved the monitor physically, and plugged the monitor into a different wall outlet.
The only thing new in my rig is the mobo. I swapped monitors with my other rig and noticed that niether monitor flickered like this one on my rig. This monitor had no problems with the ti4200 on the amd box and the cheapo 17in. monitor had no problems on my rig with the 9800xt.
I've reseated the vid card a dozen times, my temps are 61 C at idle. I've played with the monitor settings and even enabled vsync. I've tried different resolutions.
No luck , it still, occasionally gets that bouncing line that moves up and down about an inch from the bottom. It'll go away with a reboot, sometimes a deguass will do the trick. Then sure enough it returns. Sometimes it won't happen for hours, sometimes it'll even happen in the middle of Wolf ET where the top and bottom edges of the screen compress slightly then return to normal with that damn bouncing horizontal line at the bottom. Forgot to mention the line or wave or whatever is horizontal.
I removed the volt mods from my 9800XT months ago and even re-installed the stock cooler a few weeks back. I'm truly baffled by this one.
If it's the vid card, great, I buy a 6800GT. If it's the monitor, great, I pick up another 20 in. But not so great, I don't know which one it is.
Any ideas or suggestions?
I've noticed over the past week that the bottom of my screen has a faint horizontal line that bounces up and down about 2 inches from the bottom of the screen. Almost like a wave. The odd thing is I've moved my fans around, unplugged the n/b fan from the mobo and put it into the psu, changed the agp voltage from 1.5 to 1.6 to 1.7, moved the monitor physically, and plugged the monitor into a different wall outlet.
The only thing new in my rig is the mobo. I swapped monitors with my other rig and noticed that niether monitor flickered like this one on my rig. This monitor had no problems with the ti4200 on the amd box and the cheapo 17in. monitor had no problems on my rig with the 9800xt.
I've reseated the vid card a dozen times, my temps are 61 C at idle. I've played with the monitor settings and even enabled vsync. I've tried different resolutions.
No luck , it still, occasionally gets that bouncing line that moves up and down about an inch from the bottom. It'll go away with a reboot, sometimes a deguass will do the trick. Then sure enough it returns. Sometimes it won't happen for hours, sometimes it'll even happen in the middle of Wolf ET where the top and bottom edges of the screen compress slightly then return to normal with that damn bouncing horizontal line at the bottom. Forgot to mention the line or wave or whatever is horizontal.
I removed the volt mods from my 9800XT months ago and even re-installed the stock cooler a few weeks back. I'm truly baffled by this one.
If it's the vid card, great, I buy a 6800GT. If it's the monitor, great, I pick up another 20 in. But not so great, I don't know which one it is.
Any ideas or suggestions?