Graphic Card or Monitor Problem ?.

NiteSurfer

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Hi All

I've recently purchased a Samsung T260HD. Excellent TV/Monitor Btw.

Anyway, Ive been having an issue whereby sometimes the screen will go blank briefly then come back on and off multiple times.. Even going into standby on some occasions while playing games or watching Video through media player.

I have an Ati X850 XT AGP card.. using DVI-D... However after my Nvidia fanboy friend suggested that ATI sucks monkey nuts and that's most likely the cause, he suggested I get another Card preferbly Nvidia..

Before I do this I spent 10 hours searching the net for an answer because basically My Mobo only supports AGP. And Nvidia have long since given up supporting that side of the market..

I read one article about 40% of ATI cards having no display at all using DVI-D connection. So I decided to try the crappy Analog cable supplied with the lovely T260HD Monitor..

So far I haven't had a single problem...:( which means my fanboy friend could be right about ATi cards.. or Annoying Trash Interface cards.

If I replaced my Graphics Card with another or replaced the system completly would it guarantee 100% that I could use DVI-D properly !!...

Anyone...?
 
NiteSurfer said:
Hi All

I've recently purchased a Samsung T260HD. Excellent TV/Monitor Btw.

Anyway, Ive been having an issue whereby sometimes the screen will go blank briefly then come back on and off multiple times.. Even going into standby on some occasions while playing games or watching Video through media player.

I have an Ati X850 XT AGP card.. using DVI-D... However after my Nvidia fanboy friend suggested that ATI sucks monkey nuts and that's most likely the cause, he suggested I get another Card preferbly Nvidia..

Before I do this I spent 10 hours searching the net for an answer because basically My Mobo only supports AGP. And Nvidia have long since given up supporting that side of the market..

I read one article about 40% of ATI cards having no display at all using DVI-D connection. So I decided to try the crappy Analog cable supplied with the lovely T260HD Monitor..

So far I haven't had a single problem...:( which means my fanboy friend could be right about ATi cards.. or Annoying Trash Interface cards.

If I replaced my Graphics Card with another or replaced the system completly would it guarantee 100% that I could use DVI-D properly !!...

Anyone...?
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Well, you said the analogue port works fine.. So a good presumption would mean the DVI port on older ATI cards may be a tad naff.. So yeah, a newer ATI or NVIDIA card with a DVI-D input would work, either one of them.. ;)

Unless you bought the same ATI card again maybe? :D
 
get new system using a pci-e card. then you will be fine with either ATI or NVIDIA cards.

but the best bet would be trying a friends agp card which has dvi (if you know anybody with one) to check that the dvi connection on the monitor is working ok.
 
yup its true.....ati cards can't really support dvi connection....40% of all cards they sell are faulty :p
 
what res are you running in, because i am getting the same problem on my new Viewsonic VX2260wm with my existing ATI 4850

What res are you running in? The problem for me only happens in 1920x1080, if i lower the res the problem goes away
 
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