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CrazyChuckster
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January 29th, 2004 12:00
Problem with 2001fp and Radeon 9800XT
Well folks I will start out by saying that my built by ATI radeon is a week old and I just got my Dell 2001fp monitor today. I hooked it up via the DVI cable and fired it up.
All is well, set it to 1600x1200x32 and load the 2001fp drivers. Excellent, everything looks great, check for dead pixels....got none awesome!
Decide to reboot and I get this
http://users.adelphia.net/~crazychuckster/2001fp.jpg
Now if I back the resolution down to 1280x1024 or use the analog cable it goes away. I am running the 4.1 Catalyst Drivers. I have also tried reinstalling them to no avail. I have checked the box on the ATI drivers to lower the frequency for DVI output or whatever and it helps a bit but does not fix it completely.
I also tested the monitor on a different system at 1600x1200 on the DVI on a GF3 TI500 and it was fine.
Any ideas?
- CrazyChuckster,
I have an ATI Radeon 8500DV and I just got my Dell 2001fp two days ago.
I get a very similar problem to yours - green bars and/or moving green dots accross the screen.
However, for me it happens mostly in text mode, while the PC's BIOS is booting up, before the operating system loads. Sometimes the screen even goes completely blank in text mode - eg. the Linux text boot is completely black.
If I turn the monitor off and on, both of these problems fix themselves.
In graphics mode, things are much better, the green bars don't typically show up, although I can make them appear if I switch very quickly between programs in text and graphics mode.
The problem only happens if I use DVI. With the analog VGA cable, it never happens.
FYI it's not my PC or video card, another DVI display (Apple 22" Cinema) never had this problem connected to the same video card.
I am trying to get a replacement from Dell, but so far have received no answer from support. If this takes much longer, I think I might bite the bullet and get a refund, and purchase a better quality monitor locally. CrazyChuckster
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Posted January 31st, 2004 12:00
It was a bad video card. I replaced it with another 9800XT and all is well now.
rorosch
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Posted January 30th, 2004 05:00
I have a 9800xt as well and it works fine (had to check the reduce frequency box). Is the frequency set at 60Hz?
Maybe you should list all your settings so I could compare to mine.