build help

black screens doing what?

The screen momentarily goes blank/black. Less than half a second, then comes back on. Almost like the signal is momentarily cut off.

It shouldnt be doing any of that.

Coming back to the sound if I may.

I have connected the jack lead to the line in of the monitor, and to the line out of the motherboard back panel (green connector). Switching to the realtek playback device I am getting no sound. The realtek device appears to be working according to the dialog:

If you get sound from the motherboards green port using headphones/speakers.

Then its a setting at the monitor end that needs adjusting I would have thought.

Yes I do. And I cannot see anything in the monitor menu's.

Ive buggered things up more now. I disabled the intel(R) display audio from the above dialog, now its gone and I can't get it back..

Volume on the monitor turned up?

There isn't any vol control on the monitor. It was working fine through HDMI, I was controlling the volume using the pc.

The cable is fine as I just connected it to the walkman and line in and it works.

According to the manual button 3 is volume control

Ah yes you are right. It is up though and no sound is coming out.

How have you got the monitor connected? HDMI or DVI?

Monitor is connected via HDMI at the moment, but will be display port once I get my GPU. You think that it won't work until i kill the HDMI connection?

Possibly, or the audio cable isnt as pushed into the hole as you think it is.

Its all the way in.

Ive got my intel one back now, and the headphone port on the monitor works.

I wonder if I pull out the HDMI cable whether I'll then get audio.

Didn't work.

Can't do anything else to test it now as the pc doesn't have an old VGA output.

Here is what I needed a top of the range i5 to run:

Guys, not sure where to put this question so thought I'd start with my original thread. Hopefully you guys can help or point me to the right section of the forum.

Basically I appear to be getting some screen glitching after playing a game for a while. It then continues after I close the said game down. The game is Rollercoaster tycoon 3. I'm playing it on the integrated GPU as I don't have a dedicated card yet.

At worst, it runs fine for about 20 minutes then starts to glitch. The screen distorts and then freezes, but only in the bottom quarter. The rest of the screen is ok and I can still interact.

Other times it does not do this, i just get the occasional screen flicker.

I know its an old game, and I am playing it in compatibility mode. Its the fact that it continues after I shut the game down which I find odd.

Any ideas?