McKinley 0 Posted June 14, 2000 Hi there, I'm having a really big problem here. I've burnt out my Viewsonic P815 and an old 14" monitor. Here is my problem. I am using the detonator 5.14 drivers and played a couple games of quake and halflife. I notice that when the monitor was switching modes, there was a line straight down the middle. I thought nothing of it. Then, one morning, I launched a game of halflife and as the monitor was switching video modes, the thin line in the middle stayed and I havn't been able to use my 21" monitor since. Now, the scary thing is that my 14" also blew out on my when i launched halflife. It's kinda hard to belive that software destroyed my monitors but I don't want to risk another monitor just to find out (my 17"). I can understand the 14" blowing out but not my brandnew 21". Can anyone help me out or reassure me that it's not a software problem so that when I get my replacement P815 I don't blow it again? Or do I have to switch back to win98? Thanks for your time. Athlon 700 Epox 7KXA 128 PC-133 MX300 Creative DDR Share this post Link to post
FrogMaster 0 Posted June 15, 2000 I know this symptom (I posted a topic some time ago about software being able to destroy hardware). If you see only an horizontal line means completely out of sync vertical signal and maybe dead vertical scanning because of too high refresh rate Either your video card is dead or the drivers send insane sync frequencies commands to it. You may try to reinstall another version of the drivers. Take courage! Share this post Link to post
euankirkhope 0 Posted June 15, 2000 There are also lots of reasonably simple causes... Take the card out and check that the soldered joints on the VGA socket are all 100% stuck down, and that there are no dry joints. Also check the cables on both monitors. Do you use a VGA extension cable/splitter? if so remove it... Try the monitor in another PC. The ramdac should know what a good and insane signal is, perhaps trying the original shipped drivers (too ensure a 100% hardware match) if it blows again, you know who to sue. Using beta software drivers (except shipped beta software ) would invalid your warranty so never mention what driver version you were using. Just say "what do mean driver version? I just installed off cdrom, like the instructions said..." Share this post Link to post
