Problems with ATI Radeon All-in-wonder 9800...

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I get small vertical lines on a regular base, mostly in pure dos programms
(ghost, partition magic...), but sometimes also in Windows (rarely however).
What can be the cause??
 
Alive&Kicking said:
I get small vertical lines on a regular base, mostly in pure dos programms
(ghost, partition magic...), but sometimes also in Windows (rarely
however).
What can be the cause??
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Nobody???
 
Alive&Kicking said:
Nobody???
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Thought I'd make my reply in this thread to get back on topic.

Your English doesn't seem to be a problem to me. I suggested giving system
info because people are more likely to respond if they don't have to ask.
I've thought of a few things. Do you see any driver problems in Device
Manager? Run dxdiag and test the DX installation and see if it is ok. Do you
think the lines showing up could be heat related? Is it a problem or just
annoying?
 
T Shadow said:
Thought I'd make my reply in this thread to get back on topic.

Your English doesn't seem to be a problem to me. I suggested giving system
info because people are more likely to respond if they don't have to ask.
I've thought of a few things. Do you see any driver problems in Device
Manager? Run dxdiag and test the DX installation and see if it is ok. Do
you
think the lines showing up could be heat related? Is it a problem or just
annoying?
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I am running WIN XP Home on an AMD Athlon64 3000+ CPU, with an Asus K8V-F
and
512 Mb.
Re-installing Windows (a real clean install) with the newest drivers
(Catalist) did not solve the problem.
No problem at all in Devive Manager. No problems with DirectX.
The lines are not heat related, because they are there even with a cold
start (a real "cold" start ;-))
The lines are not really a problem and just a bit annoying, but they should
not be there...
If you wish, I can send you some printscreens to give you an idea...
 
Alive&Kicking said:
I am running WIN XP Home on an AMD Athlon64 3000+ CPU, with an Asus K8V-F
and
512 Mb.
Re-installing Windows (a real clean install) with the newest drivers
(Catalist) did not solve the problem.
No problem at all in Devive Manager. No problems with DirectX.
The lines are not heat related, because they are there even with a cold
start (a real "cold" start ;-))
The lines are not really a problem and just a bit annoying, but they should
not be there...
If you wish, I can send you some printscreens to give you an idea...
Click to expand...

I'd be interested to see a printscreen, because this sounds more like a
hardware problem to me. If the lines are showing up in fullscreen DOS
apps (I assume you're booting straight into DOS for Ghost and PQM?) then
it's not Windows or driver related. I would guess possibly a problem
with the monitor, or more likely, with the video card, possibly some bad
video RAM.


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Matt Ion said:
I'd be interested to see a printscreen, because this sounds more like a
hardware problem to me. If the lines are showing up in fullscreen DOS
apps (I assume you're booting straight into DOS for Ghost and PQM?) then
it's not Windows or driver related. I would guess possibly a problem with
the monitor, or more likely, with the video card, possibly some bad video
RAM.
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OK, I'll send you some examples.
And yes : it's "pure" fullscreen dos...
 
Alive&Kicking said:
OK, I'll send you some examples.
And yes : it's "pure" fullscreen dos...
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What brand, model and type(CRT,LCD ) is the monitor? Are you using analog or
digital connection?
 
I get small vertical lines on a regular base, mostly in pure dos
What brand, model and type(CRT,LCD ) is the monitor? Are you using analog
or
digital connection?
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The monitor (that works fine with the old computer) is an LCD "Medion Flat
Pro 17". It only has an analog connection.
As the ATI only has a DVI-connection, I use a convertor DVI-VGA. Could this
cause the problem?
 
Alive&Kicking said:
The monitor (that works fine with the old computer) is an LCD "Medion Flat
Pro 17". It only has an analog connection.
As the ATI only has a DVI-connection, I use a convertor DVI-VGA. Could this
cause the problem?
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Is this a made by ATI board or 3rd party? I was under the impression Made by
ATI 9800's had one analog and one digital monitor output. Just thought it
might have something to do with screen resolution since a full screen DOS
window should be lower resolution than the normal Windows resolution. LCDs
don't like anything but their native resolution so that's a possibility. I
think the converter adds another layer of possibilities for problems but
this is getting past my knowledge/experience level.
 
Alive&Kicking said:
OK, I'll send you some examples.
And yes : it's "pure" fullscreen dos...
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Replied via email, but for everyone else's benefit: I'd say about a 99%
chance it's video RAM that's gone bad. I've seen that pattern before
and it's always been a video card gone bad.

Best way to be certain is to try the same card in a different machine
with a different monitor; hardware failure somewhere else IS a
possibility, but not likely from what I see.


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