flashing bright green pinpoints on Viewsonic bg2230wm

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I am seeing bright green pinpoints of lights occasionally when viewing a
movie, scattered throughout the picture also sometimes on embedded pics in
web pages. Wasn't sure if it's my video card (old ATI AIW 8500DV)? Viewsonic
said to take it back. Originally thought I shouldn't use 32 bit color on
display props but also shows up now on 16 bit color. Any ideas?

It almost looks like on some photo editing programs where you try to have it
automatically select an item in an image for cropping and it flashes around
the border of the selected item,

Even though 1680x1050 shows up on display properties, is it possible the
AIW8500 can't handle this large widescreen monitor?
 
Phil Tomaskovic said:
I am seeing bright green pinpoints of lights occasionally when viewing a
movie, scattered throughout the picture also sometimes on embedded pics in
web pages. Wasn't sure if it's my video card (old ATI AIW 8500DV)?
Viewsonic said to take it back. Originally thought I shouldn't use 32 bit
color on display props but also shows up now on 16 bit color. Any ideas?

It almost looks like on some photo editing programs where you try to have
it automatically select an item in an image for cropping and it flashes
around the border of the selected item,

Even though 1680x1050 shows up on display properties, is it possible the
AIW8500 can't handle this large widescreen monitor?
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My 2025wm is running great at 1680x1050 32bit, off a
X850 XT PE. That is with the DVI Digital connection. I
watch captured video with it all the time.

It could be the vid card, the R8500 would probably be
as low as I would go to drive such a display, although it
is more likely an artifact created during the software
playback/decryption. You might try a different playback
program.

Luck;
Ken
 
Phil said:
I am seeing bright green pinpoints of lights occasionally when viewing a
movie, scattered throughout the picture also sometimes on embedded pics in
web pages. Wasn't sure if it's my video card (old ATI AIW 8500DV)? Viewsonic
said to take it back. Originally thought I shouldn't use 32 bit color on
display props but also shows up now on 16 bit color. Any ideas?

It almost looks like on some photo editing programs where you try to have it
automatically select an item in an image for cropping and it flashes around
the border of the selected item,

Even though 1680x1050 shows up on display properties, is it possible the
AIW8500 can't handle this large widescreen monitor?
Click to expand...

I've seen that while playing Uru Live. I was playing with the new 20"
VG2030WM monitor trying to figure out what sort of resolution and video
quality the new device could handle. When pushed too hard, like full
screen 1680X1050 with any sort of video quality at all my old 9600XT
gave a nice sprinkling of green pixels. I don't know a precise reason
for the artifacts but I found that I need to play the game windowed down
to something more reasonable. 1152X864 with video quality cranked up
only about 1/3rd works fine. I take this a a strong suggestion that I
need to invest in a more modern video card. I don't know where an
AIW8500 stands relative to a 9600XT but I suspect that they may have
similar processing ability.
 
Thanks all, exchanged it and haven't seen the issue on the new monitor
yet...

Now I notice the new monitor won't detect any signal over dvi during post.
I could have sworn the previos one was ok. My vx900 is fine too.
Viewsonic support says it's a known issue and is due to the PC cpu (I have a
P4 3.0Mhz
is faster than the monitor's cpu. I get video when I hit the XP Welcome
screen.

Anyone else having same problem? Is this something that's even fixable if
it's in the monitor?

Thanks
 
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