Black line in center of monitor

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Hans Wankle

I have an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe using a Nvidia video card. The system went
together without any problems at all. Shortly after, I got a small vertical
line in the center of my LCD monitor. I tried everything I knew to get it to
go away without success. I finally emailed Asus and they sent me a link to a
file that corrected the problem. I had to reformat and reinstall and the
black line is present again. Has anyone else has this problem? I have
emailed Asus again but it takes them about a week to respond. Thanks
 
Hans said:
I have an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe using a Nvidia video card. The system
went together without any problems at all. Shortly after, I got a
small vertical line in the center of my LCD monitor. I tried
everything I knew to get it to go away without success. I finally
emailed Asus and they sent me a link to a file that corrected the
problem. I had to reformat and reinstall and the black line is
present again. Has anyone else has this problem? I have emailed Asus
again but it takes them about a week to respond. Thanks
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Is this line *ALWAYS* present?

Being an LCD monitor, it's possible that the line has gone out.

Ben
 
The line appears only sometimes when the machine is booted. When it appears
the only way to get it to go away is to reboot. Sometimes I have to rebot
several times to get it to go away. Asus has acknowledged this is a known
problem with this board. As I mentioned earlier, Asus sent me a link to a
file to resolve the problem, which it did. I use this system exclusively for
testing so it I have to reformat quite often. I should have written down the
file name or link but failed to do so. The LCD is a Dell 1704FP that I just
bought about two months ago. I think Asus will respond with the answer as
before, but it takes them a week or longer. I just thought someone else may
have encountered this. Thanks for your response.
 
May I be impertinent and suggest getting Virtual PC or one of the other
Virtual OS packages?
The key advantage here is that you install each OS once, shut it down, take
a backup of the VM disc files, then use it. If you need to revert to a fresh
install, then just restore.

Virtual PC is not very exepensive at all...

- Tim
 
Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried VM, Ghost, Disk Image and other
programs of this type and have always encountered problems with them at some
point. It.s probably operator error. I just find it easier and more stable
to do a fresh reinstall of the operating system. It only takes about 35
minutes to reinstall and it seemed to take almost that long with the other
programs. I get it started and go to my other systems during the install. I
have five other systems on my network so I just play with them all day long.
Since I am retired, I have a lot of time on my hands.
 
VM = VMWare? That should have been OK. Without gobs of disc space for each
OS backup and / or ISO CD Images of the OS CD's it would be more of a pain.
The 'Workstation' versions of these products tend to have less than perfect
IO performance. Whereas the server version of these products (EG Virtual
Server as opposed to Virtual PC) are spot on (and a lot more pricey).

It took many hours to do a Linux install using one of these products simply
because either caching or 32 bit IO did not come on as it would have
normally. So slow it was painfull.

- Tim
 
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