For starters hi everyone. I recently purchased a new PC today and already I am experiencing a lot of problems with it, I originally bought a Dell 3007WFP and was running it off my old PC which had a GE force 6600, I had to run at 1280x800 (well I think that was the res) anyway when I tried anything above that I would have to scroll around, this I expected as I knew my old vid card couldn't handle max resolution... however my new PC which should run the monitor no problems has had nothing but troubles with it. For a bit of info my new PC is a Intel Q6600, EVGA 680i MB and Calibre P880+ 8800GTX running Vista64. Upon connecting my PC from the PC store I couldn't view the bios or start-up until Vista64 fully loaded (I don't know how to describe it but there were large color squares etc all over the screen), and even then in Vista I could only run its lower end native resolution and nothing above or I would end up with the colored pixels again. I was told to update everything and then change the native resolution in my video card settings and now vista wont display anything viewable either so I am permanently stuck with no way of changing back as I do not have any other monitor to run off. If anyone can assist me as to how I might fix this or what might be the problem in the first place (I should have atleast been able to view the bios) it would be greatly appreciated. I have added an image below that shows how my monitor looks when I change the format, also I am guessing this is important information.... whenever in the Nvidia control panel under change the signal or HD format it is set to non-HDTV format, however if I try and change to 1080p HDTV format or anything of the sort I get the error.... I know that this issue has to be a hardware issue or cabling as the problem exists before any software is loaded (i.e. on start-up before it loads into Vista I get the error).... I am really stumped as to what it might be though :( Any help is GREATLY appreciated as I forked over quite a bit of dosh on this machine and I hate to see it going to waste running at well under what it can do. Message Edited by Zero.Cool on 09-29-2007 04:02 PM

Message Edited by Zero.Cool on 09-29-2007 09:55 PM