Interferance?

[.Griff.]

I'll set the scene.

For about a year I had my old Sony Vaio laptop hooked up to my LCD in the lounge (Toshiba 42C3030DB) which I used for a bit of web browsing and watching of the odd film and TV show. Everything was fine but a couple of weeks ago the hard drive died so it's out of action.

My parents had an old box they weren't using, nothing fancy just a 2.6ghx Celeron, onboard graphics (S3 Prosavage DDR) and onboard sound. I've given it a good clean, installed XP Pro SP2 on it and it's hooked up to the LCD.

Here's where the "problem" starts. From a distance (it's a large screen afterall) it looks fine but when sitting closer there's distinct and very obvious sparkly/snowy/almost static like "interference" all over the desktop. It's hard to explain but you can see individual pixels pulsate which gives of a shimmering effect.

Is this actually caused by some form of interference? I'm using the same VGA as I did with the laptop and that never showed anything like this. Could it be down to the ageing onboard GPU?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[james.miller]

it could be the onboard graphics picking up interference, yes. probably from a nearby power source on the motherboard itself, much like onboard sound can. you wont really know unless you try a graphics card.

 

[.Griff.]

Cheers..

I was going to try and source a cheap AGP card but I wanted to ask the question first.