Monitor or vid. card ?

[dan]

I'm getting dark streaks across my monitor eg: A column of script or icons
on left
side of mon. will form shadowy lines in a row across the mon.

How can I tell if it's the mon. or the vid. card ?
I'm using win98se, updated and NVIDIA Ge Force 256 AGR +

Any kind of test to determine which is at fault ?

 

[philo]

"dan" <nospam@nsm.com> wrote in message
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> I'm getting dark streaks across my monitor eg: A column of script or
> icons
> on left
> side of mon. will form shadowy lines in a row across the mon.
>
> How can I tell if it's the mon. or the vid. card ?
> I'm using win98se, updated and NVIDIA Ge Force 256 AGR +
>
> Any kind of test to determine which is at fault ?
>
>

The only way to know for sure is to try a different monitor
or try that monitor on another machine...

but you may want to boot to safe mode...where the video card will be run at
low resolution...
and check....
if the image is still streaked, the problem is probably in the monitor

 

[budgie]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:40:50 -0500, "dan" <nospam@nsm.com> wrote:

>I'm getting dark streaks across my monitor eg: A column of script or icons
>on left
>side of mon. will form shadowy lines in a row across the mon.
>
>How can I tell if it's the mon. or the vid. card ?
>I'm using win98se, updated and NVIDIA Ge Force 256 AGR +
>
>Any kind of test to determine which is at fault ?

As philo suggested, swapping is the most definitive test. Also don't overlook
the video cable.

 

[Haggis]

"budgie" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 16:40:50 -0500, "dan" <nospam@nsm.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm getting dark streaks across my monitor eg: A column of script or
>>icons
>>on left
>>side of mon. will form shadowy lines in a row across the mon.
>>
>>How can I tell if it's the mon. or the vid. card ?
>>I'm using win98se, updated and NVIDIA Ge Force 256 AGR +
>>
>>Any kind of test to determine which is at fault ?
>
> As philo suggested, swapping is the most definitive test. Also don't
> overlook
> the video cable.

power down ..pull the power cord.

pull and reseat your vid card ...remove and reconnect (2-3 times) your vid
cable.

if this does not work....give the cable to the monitor a little wiggle while
its on.

no change? suspect vid card memory ... :>

 

[dan]

TY for the suggestions. Will try and respond with results
in a few.
Bless this thread, lol.....

"dan" <nospam@nsm.com> wrote in message
news:O0qbpXXUIHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> I'm getting dark streaks across my monitor eg: A column of script or
icons
> on left
> side of mon. will form shadowy lines in a row across the mon.
>
> How can I tell if it's the mon. or the vid. card ?
> I'm using win98se, updated and NVIDIA Ge Force 256 AGR +
>
> Any kind of test to determine which is at fault ?
>
>