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November 23, 2010 at 7:45 pm #2219095
Graphics display issue/s.
Lockedby boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
Does it matter which slot of two my PCIExpress video card is installed to? It’s a 16X card installed to a 16X slot. There are two 16X slots. I’ve installed to the one furthest from the CPU, if that’s relevant.
I’m having some weird display issues.
‘Fluid’ scrolling. Very disconcerting.
‘Blinking’ display. Also very disconcerting.Card is ASUS AX 300SE\T, installed to an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe. OS is WinXP Pro, SP2. Monitor is Samsung 913v.
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November 23, 2010 at 7:45 pm #2865999
Clarifications
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
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Clarifications
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November 23, 2010 at 8:02 pm #2865997
If it offends thee
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 3 months ago
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Pluck it out and put it in the other slot. See what happens.
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November 23, 2010 at 9:18 pm #2865979
Last ditch…
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to If it offends thee
I’m trying to avoid any more pita with this build. I may not succeed, but I’m trying. 😉
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November 23, 2010 at 8:47 pm #2865988
I don’t think it matters
by jcitron · about 13 years, 3 months ago
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which slot you put the card in as long as it’s the same kind of slot.
The problems to me sound like interference of some kind caused by a loose connection or a shielding problem.
Try tightening up your monitor cable on the back of the monitor and on the PC its self. Also try moving your video signal cable away from any power cables it maybe near. Sometimes the shielding isn’t that great on the cable.
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November 23, 2010 at 9:03 pm #2865984
try
by jeremyrem · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to I don’t think it matters
you can also try adjusting the resolution, or refresh rate, what its currently set at may not be supported by your monitor.
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November 23, 2010 at 9:16 pm #2865980
Thanks.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to I don’t think it matters
I’ll double-check cabling. I wonder, as the front of this box is open for the moment, perhaps I’m garnering interference there? Also, there’s no panel around the I/O ports in the back. Could that matter?
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November 23, 2010 at 9:04 pm #2865983
For giggles,
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Graphics display issue/s.
check the refresh rate.
It does sound a bit like an interference issue, but trying a different valid refresh rate is easy.
Are the drivers you expect to be in use for the card and the monitor the drivers which are actually in use? (Yeah, sometimes a specific, vendor-provided monitor driver is necessary or better.)
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November 23, 2010 at 9:14 pm #2865981
Yes to both.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to For giggles,
And I do have refresh rates this monitor can’t handle hidden in that option. It was running at 70, which supposedly this monitor can do. I’ve changed it to 60, the only other option.
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November 23, 2010 at 10:28 pm #2865969
Waugh!
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Yes to both.
I hate low refresh rates.
Even though this does not have the same sort of meaning as it does for CRTs, a higher refresh rate can really make a difference, particularly when the monitor is not set at the default resolution. Unless the monitor cannot handle it, in which case it looks worse. Default is frequently 60Hz.
Of course, refresh rate, resolution, and color depth are interrelated, so going for a higher refresh means losing color depth and/or resolution.
Q: Are you using filtered power? It may help. Anything electrical near the box or the monitor which isn’t the box or the monitor?
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November 23, 2010 at 10:31 pm #2865968
I still think
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Waugh!
She needs to whack it with a mallet.
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November 23, 2010 at 10:33 pm #2865966
Ah ha ha…oh.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to I still think
I thought you had said, “mullet”.
Capital idea, though. 😉
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November 23, 2010 at 10:38 pm #2865965
You know
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Ah ha ha…oh.
Hitting it with a dead fish, large or small, just might do it.
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November 23, 2010 at 10:59 pm #2865959
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November 23, 2010 at 11:01 pm #2865958
I’ll
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to You know
have the mallet over the mullet any day. 😀
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November 23, 2010 at 10:33 pm #2865967
I hate
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Waugh!
troubleshooting hardware. I’m not very good at it, and I sometimes just don’t ‘get it’. Easy enough to match up bus speeds and slots and PSes the way manufacturers make all that pretty clear. But the rest of it? :0
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November 23, 2010 at 10:57 pm #2865960
Sometimes, it gets weird.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to I hate
I remember needing to reassign IRQs and DMA channels, but not being allowed. Thanks, Windows 95. I could reassign, to my heart’s content, everything I could want – excepting the bit I needed to reassign.
My favorite was the occasion of up my first wireless gateway. (Spoiler alert: They ship the damned things with wireless already on.) I was not planning on making use of the wireless feature at all.
So, the sucker is hooked up, but Windows would have me believe that A Network Cable Is Unplugged, and I’m not having any of that. I can’t reach the router config, so I troubleshoot TCP/IP, check cables, reset router, whatever. When a connection was present, it would become Unplugged before I could reach the router. Mind you, I’m not thinking about Wireless at all… but initial setup technically requires an Ethernet connection, so I’m further inclined to disregard any thoughts of a Wireless nature.
Eureka! A flash of insight, after disregarding the problem for some time. Move the evil cordless phone.
The router was, apparently, confused by the phone base. It was latching onto the signal and dropping the Ethernet connection (which still doesn’t make sense to me). Once in the router’s web interface, I found that Wireless was, in fact, on. Stupid gateway.
Now, what about all those people who never bother to secure their Wi-Fi because it never crossed their minds as they don’t use it?
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November 23, 2010 at 11:03 pm #2865593
I keep
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Sometimes, it gets weird.
wireless disabled. Except in winter when I use it from the room with the fire. I don’t trust wireless… Seems to me it’s too easy to get into.
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November 23, 2010 at 10:56 pm #2865961
Holy cow.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Graphics display issue/s.
Got rid of the scrolling problem with a couple of settings changes. One to the mouse itself, and the other to the ‘smooth scrolling’ option in FF. *slaps forehead*
That leaves the blinking screen issue. 😐
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November 23, 2010 at 11:03 pm #2865957
Woo hoo! Two down, one to go.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Holy cow.
See, you were thinking even more better than we on that. Slap us each in the forehead, twice as hard.
I loathe horrible default settings.
Blinking: Describe. I’m thinking random or regular blackouts at long intervals or once every few seconds. Tell me I’m thinking the wrong way about this now, too, will you? :^0
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November 23, 2010 at 11:08 pm #2865592
When a new tab is opened
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to Woo hoo! Two down, one to go.
the screen of the tab I’m on ‘blinks’. When I drop a card on another card in Spider Solitaire, the screen ‘blinks’. When I move from folder to folder in Outlook, the screen ‘blinks’.
In each case, just once.
I haven’t had ‘er up and running very long, so these are the only regular instances of screen blinking I’ve noticed, and kept an eye on. (haha – more punny points)
I can’t think of a better word than ‘blinks’, either. It’s almost, but not quite, a flash.
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Default settings. Been so long since I had a ‘new’ one that I’ve forgotten about some of those defaults. :p -
November 23, 2010 at 11:33 pm #2865586
So, during a major re-draw, (edit)
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to When a new tab is opened
it is slow. O r that is how I am interpreting this. Try going back to 70 now?
Also, look at the graphics driver display settings – is hardware acceleration being used or not?
edit: Just had a look at the manual (fairly nice manual, I might add), just to make sure that it doesn’t matter which slot into which you install a single graphics card. Nope. Black or blue, your choice.
I also noticed that you card comes with a utilities – try running those. Maybe try some other driver settings as there seem to be a lot of features to this card. Try a DirectX diagnostic, even. I know I have seen, used, and probably have, somewhere, a variety of odd video diagnostics. I’ll see if I can name any.
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November 24, 2010 at 12:28 am #2865579
It takes us all
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to So, during a major re-draw, (edit)
To swarm, and to envelope with love, any one of us who is willing to admit, without defense, that she does not have it [i]all[/i] under complete tow.
Not that I have it, either.
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November 25, 2010 at 2:29 pm #2865387
Yes.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to It takes us all
And being held in high regard doth bring forth the Swarm.
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November 24, 2010 at 7:35 am #2865556
I didn’t get
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to So, during a major re-draw, (edit)
a manual with the card. 🙁 Just a quick install flyer. I’ll hunt up the manual shortly.
Thanks on the video diagnostic utilities when you think of them. 😉
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November 25, 2010 at 2:28 pm #2865388
There is alway dxdiag on Windows.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to I didn’t get
Just type dxdiag in the run box.
You may also wish to check if the monitor needs a color profile installed, and whether there is one installed & in use. Mismatch = bad color.
Card manual – Unfortunately, that section of the Asus site is still undergoing maintenance. http://www.asus.com/999/html/events/vga/eax300se-t/overview.htm
Interesting, maybe, regarding drivers: http://driver-helper.org/asus/asus-5/asus-extreme-ax300set-driver-download
Mobo manual, which I found to be slick:
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket939/A8N32-SLI%20Deluxe/E2280_A8N32-SLI_Dlx.pdfI cannot seem to locate any of my old monitor/graphics tests (mostly “DOS”-like) – time to search the archives.
here is one that might suit your needs, 30 day free eval: http://www.passmark.com/products/monitortest.htm
Visual web test:
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
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November 26, 2010 at 6:31 pm #2865260
Thank you
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.
kind sir. 🙂
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November 26, 2010 at 6:41 pm #2865259
Welcome back
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 3 months ago
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From your gastronomical adventure.
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November 26, 2010 at 8:03 pm #2865255
Boxy, you’re welcome. Santee – oh, I see.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.
Nope, Thanksgiving Sunday, easier for the folks. Will report back. I worked, instead, and also played around on teh Intarwebs.
I have found my stack of CDs and HDDs from other machines. Will have a look for one of the graphics and display tests. They will hurt your eyes, and you may feel the patterns on the inside of the back of your skull.
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November 26, 2010 at 8:10 pm #2865254
If Sunday
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.
Then I get to wish you envelopment by all around and important to you. The food, too.
Pig out on both.
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November 28, 2010 at 6:43 pm #2867927
Stuffed.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.
Oink oink. Full family complement, much food. Good times.
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November 28, 2010 at 7:13 pm #2867925
Glad to hear it, seanferd.
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.
Love a family get-together! 😀
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November 28, 2010 at 8:29 pm #2867915
Thank you.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.
It is sort of nice – much of my family happens to live close, still, and others have moved here, like my 90-odd year old grandmother. (The women in her family do that. I had great grandmother and great grand aunts until I was a teen.)
It is rather odd how close to me my brothers’ families and my grandmother live. If my dad didn’t have MS, my folks would still be extremely nearby as well. But they are still not very far at all. Pretty cool, really.
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November 28, 2010 at 8:43 pm #2867913
This is good
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 3 months ago
In reply to There is alway dxdiag on Windows.
I am glad to hear, too.
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November 28, 2010 at 8:50 pm #2867910
Thank you, too.
by seanferd · about 13 years, 3 months ago
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Good to see you both.
Did I mention the kids? Oh my, the kids. A riot.
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November 23, 2010 at 11:26 pm #2865588
Sure glad
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 3 months ago
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These are all your problems, and not mine. I got me handfuls of my own — everytime I turn around, it seems, nowadays.
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