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A little problem with my new 7600gt

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Hi guys.
I received my 7600gt yesterday, installed it in the usual way when changing GPU manufacturers, downloaded and installed latest drivers and i was up and running again.
Now as soon as i get a picture on my monitors there appears to be a weird interferance on them, now i'm not talking anything major but enough to be annoyed by it. I suppose the best way to describe it is it looks like when you try to put an s-video signal to a TV when the TV is expecting RGB, there's a slight bit of colour distortion, and maybe like a tiny bit of a screen snow effect surrounding edges. This is mainly noticable when viewing text, but is noticable on the desktop when you look for it. When in game, you can't really see it, i've tried lots of resolutions but it's there regardless. I've also tried fiddling with the colour sharpness/edge definition settings and the like, but to no effect.
I've not tried to overclock the card yet so it's completley stock.
Has anyone else ever had this problem? and if so, is there a non-RMA fix?

TIA, Kelvin
 
Yes, sorry, this is what i mean by "installed it in the usual way when changing GPU manufacturers", as it's the norm thing to do :p
 
The exact method was, Uninstalled ATI drivers and software-> restarted in safe mode and ran driver cleaner-> shut down and installed 7600gt -> started back up and installed nVidia drivers.
 
Bump. If a picture would help, i'll try to get one, not sure if the problem will show on a screen capture though.
 
are you sure it's the card and not the cable? change cable see if that helps. Yeh and post screen shot if you can.
 
To check if its the cable or the card take a screenshot then look at it on another computer if possible or just open it in a picture editor and zoom right in and see if the interference is still there. If it is then it's the card and not the cable.
 
Cheers guys, i had checked the cables but forgot to mention i had. Anyways, the problem has dissapeared after a restart :confused: .
Perhaps it was a problem created by switching gpu manufacturers, who knows.
Thanks for the help guys.
 
First thing you should ever do if you encounter a problem is to attempt a hard restart. That means turning the power off completely not just hitting restart in windows ;)
 
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