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Garbled display
I've recently replaced my hard drive and reloaded Windows and all of my
drivers. My new video driver has some issues which I can't seem to figure out (I have the nVidia Riva 128 and have downloaded the appropriate driver from their website since for some reason my old one wouldn't work any more). With some applications (games primarily) going full screen causes everything to garble, a lot like I'm watching scrambled cable. This happened before the new drivers were installed, but ONLY with the Windows blue error screen. I have a Gateway computer and their solution was a new motherboard, which never solved the problem. What's funny is that after 6 years, I actually have my blue screen back, but now other programs have this problem. Taking a screen shot and opening it in Paint shows the picture perfectly. Another issue is when going full screen with any application, everything shifts approx 1/2 inch off to the left. Makes it tough to see anything on that side of the desktop without adjusting my horizontal position and it's only after a restart that it will come back into place. Any ideas out there? Thanks |
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You are driving the video adapter card in a mode that the monitor doesn't
support. Look for a setting for refresh rate and see if you can select a lower rate. The image shift is the same problem - your monitor is not adapting properly to the new display rate. Most modern monitors remember the horizontal setting specific to each display rate, so they automatically adjust when the rate changes. Either your monitor is faulty or it does not have this feature (or perhaps there is a procedure you need to go through to force it to remember a particular setting for each different display rate). -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Ted" wrote in message ... I've recently replaced my hard drive and reloaded Windows and all of my drivers. My new video driver has some issues which I can't seem to figure out (I have the nVidia Riva 128 and have downloaded the appropriate driver from their website since for some reason my old one wouldn't work any more). With some applications (games primarily) going full screen causes everything to garble, a lot like I'm watching scrambled cable. This happened before the new drivers were installed, but ONLY with the Windows blue error screen. I have a Gateway computer and their solution was a new motherboard, which never solved the problem. What's funny is that after 6 years, I actually have my blue screen back, but now other programs have this problem. Taking a screen shot and opening it in Paint shows the picture perfectly. Another issue is when going full screen with any application, everything shifts approx 1/2 inch off to the left. Makes it tough to see anything on that side of the desktop without adjusting my horizontal position and it's only after a restart that it will come back into place. Any ideas out there? Thanks |
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Thanks a lot Jeff! Works great now. -Ted
"Jeff Richards" wrote: You are driving the video adapter card in a mode that the monitor doesn't support. Look for a setting for refresh rate and see if you can select a lower rate. The image shift is the same problem - your monitor is not adapting properly to the new display rate. Most modern monitors remember the horizontal setting specific to each display rate, so they automatically adjust when the rate changes. Either your monitor is faulty or it does not have this feature (or perhaps there is a procedure you need to go through to force it to remember a particular setting for each different display rate). -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Ted" wrote in message ... I've recently replaced my hard drive and reloaded Windows and all of my drivers. My new video driver has some issues which I can't seem to figure out (I have the nVidia Riva 128 and have downloaded the appropriate driver from their website since for some reason my old one wouldn't work any more). With some applications (games primarily) going full screen causes everything to garble, a lot like I'm watching scrambled cable. This happened before the new drivers were installed, but ONLY with the Windows blue error screen. I have a Gateway computer and their solution was a new motherboard, which never solved the problem. What's funny is that after 6 years, I actually have my blue screen back, but now other programs have this problem. Taking a screen shot and opening it in Paint shows the picture perfectly. Another issue is when going full screen with any application, everything shifts approx 1/2 inch off to the left. Makes it tough to see anything on that side of the desktop without adjusting my horizontal position and it's only after a restart that it will come back into place. Any ideas out there? Thanks |
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Thanks for letting us know that you got it sorted out.
-- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Ted" wrote in message ... Thanks a lot Jeff! Works great now. -Ted |
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