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Drunkenmassacre · 1 Jan 2011 at 20:36

hey guys, I awlways seem to be posting problems on here, not much else lol.
I'm having some issues with either my graphics card or my monitor. I'm not sure which is the problem, but neither are more than 4 months old.

The issue itself is small flashing pixels (Or Unidentified Flashing Objects) on some of the colours on my screen. I've googled the problem, with people suggesting that the problem is caused by either my monitor or the graphics card.

I've just installed GPU-Z, which is telling me that the card is at 40degrees, and it's not overclocked (I wouldn't know where to start lol).

I suppose it would help if you knew what hardware I'm using lol, I'm on a HIS HD6850, with my monitor being the iiyama ProLite E2407HDS.

Thanks for any help

And Happy New Year Too!

Ch3m1c4L · 1 Jan 2011 at 20:52

your right, its most likely monitor or graphics card, only way to know for sure is to try the machine on a different monitor. Although if the pixels that keep flashing are constantly changing its more likely that itll be the graphics card.

Yulaw · 1 Jan 2011 at 20:57

I reccomend downloading furmark and running a stability test, check for artifacting.(flashes accross the screen colours etc.)

http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

JW1993 · 1 Jan 2011 at 20:58

I've got a similar problem with a pixel on my iiyama screen where the pixel shows red on certain backgrounds but on light colours it disappears

Drunkenmassacre · 1 Jan 2011 at 20:58

ok, cheers guys, you seem to be confirming my thoughts. I was hoping it would be something else, i.e. something cheap!

Thanks anyways

Drunkenmassacre · 1 Jan 2011 at 21:04

I've just tried Furmark, the image comes up and rotates fine, but across the entire screen little gleen flashy pizels appear. Very pretty, but not what I want.

Justintime · 1 Jan 2011 at 21:49

Sounds like graphics card, is it recently installed? Could be bad VRAM or a power/heat issue.

Ch3m1c4L · 2 Jan 2011 at 12:46

footyfan93 said:
I've got a similar problem with a pixel on my iiyama screen where the pixel shows red on certain backgrounds but on light colours it disappears

thats a stuck pixel, there are some apps that you can run on that area of the screen that sometimes fix them, or you can gently massage the area and it sometimes becomes unstuck

Drunkenmassacre · 9 Jan 2011 at 12:57

BTW, it turned out to be a loose HDMI cable, my bad