Simviation Forum - Gross Display

Dec 13^th, 2004 at 1:18am

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Hi there,

Lets hope someone here can help me.... or atleast give a suggestion. Anyway, now and then my display goes like.... weird. i got a screenshot of it. its here:
http://www.angelfire.com/music6/fgt/Mess.gif

Please!!! Cheesy

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Reply #1 - Dec 13^th, 2004 at 5:14am

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Ooooer, what graphics card do you have?

Looks like somthing has died on it, possibly its ram. Saying that have you changed drivers or anything recently? Worth checking those first as its a cheaper option than a new graphics card.

Its not your monitor I can tell you that much as the picture looks very bad to me.

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Reply #2 - Dec 13^th, 2004 at 5:46pm

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All I see is a white page with a Angel Fire ad???

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Reply #3 - Dec 13^th, 2004 at 5:52pm

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Ooooer, what graphics card do you have?

Looks like somthing has died on it, possibly its ram. Saying that have you changed drivers or anything recently? Worth checking those first as its a cheaper option than a new graphics card.

Its not your monitor I can tell you that much as the picture looks very bad to me.

Wow a reply atlast! lol
I have a hercules 3d prophet 7500 128mb. I have the latest drivers and stuff. Its really annoying...

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Reply #4 - Dec 13^th, 2004 at 6:04pm

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Yes but did you only recently update them? if so did it suddenly start doing this when you changed the drivers?

With that card (quite old I assume) it may be worth rolling back to older drivers as the newer ones will contain no optimisations for that card now.

For those who cant work out how to see the image here it is.

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Reply #5 - Dec 13^th, 2004 at 6:05pm

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If its not a driver issue, which is somthing you will have to work out, then I would say your g/card is on its way to silicon heaven!!

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Reply #6 - Dec 13^th, 2004 at 6:18pm

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This might sound off the wall but trust me this has happened to me.
You say it happens "now and then" ? So it isn't always like this?

What else do you have plugged in to the same outlet (or along the same circuit as) your computer is plugged into?

Reason I ask is that one day I was busy computing and there was a outlet in the kitchen I was needing to repair, well I plugged the microwave into the same wall as the computer (not the same outlet but along the same line) while the microwave was running my screen looked just like that, this will also happen to a TV when a hairdryer is running Wink

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Reply #7 - Dec 13^th, 2004 at 7:08pm

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it was working perfectly, until i formatted my harddrive, and i installed the exact same drivers.. since then its been buggered.

Nah my computer has its own outlet.... lol.

Im just gonna buy a new graphics card me thinks.. i did have a 256 one but it was pci.. so i sold it. I'll just get an agp version..

Thanks for yer help. One question though, why do some graphics cards need their own power supply?

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Reply #8 - Dec 14^th, 2004 at 3:13am

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Cause they use like crazy amounts of power.

The 6800 ultra actually requires two molex connectors to the PSU, but thats only if you plan on getting that.

If you want lower power requirement vid cards, go with the ati cards like a 9800 XT or X800 which both are great cards and have acceptable power usage.

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