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help my monitor flickers until widows loads

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by dwindle, May 4, 2005.

  1. dwindle

    dwindle Member

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    please help
    my monitor keeps flickering when i boot up until windows loads
    and the drivers kick in.
    im using a k7s5a motherboard with amd athlon xp 1600 processor
    and a nvidia geforce 4 mx 440 agp graphics card running at 2x.
    i dont no if this is rellevent but my pc freezes when coverting avi.
     
  2. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    how much ram is in your system? what windows are you using? reseat the videocard but also look at getting a better card with 128meg. reseat the onboard ram.
     
  3. dwindle

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    Hi
    i have 512 ram and the graphics card is only 6 moths old i have
    taken all my cards out and replaced them, ive also checked cables and
    connections i only put this system together 3 months ago.
    The problem has only started a few days ago.
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    the video card if it has 64 megs on it is probably a lot older than 6 months old as i have the 64meg version for about 4years. can you try a different video card.
     
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    Also have a look in the CMOS and set it up for AGP as primary video adapter.......
     
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    hi thaks for your replys.
    ive checked my cmos and agp is set to primary .
    also the graphics card is only 6 months old but i bought it
    at a reduced price because its old stock .
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    try the card in another computer to see if problem follows or not
     
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    thats a good idea ill take it round to a mates house and try.
    thinking about it i somtimes get a slight yellowing on the screen of my monitor but ive put that down to the monitor being quite old.
     
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    see if you can borrow your friends monitor to see if your monitor is the problem tho doubt it.
     

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