Is this a graphics problem?

fenderbass86 · 1 Sep 2006 at 11:49

I thought I had a bent pin but i've checked and there's no sign of one. It only happened this morning when I put my old sound card in my new system, but surely that wouldn't cause this mess.

Zefan · 1 Sep 2006 at 11:51

Can't see **** Captain. Maybe it's distortion from the monitor and your display device is actually fine.

Try taking a photograph of the screen.

Gandalf501 · 1 Sep 2006 at 11:51

What are we supposed to be looking at? Looks ok to me?

Jimbo · 1 Sep 2006 at 11:57

It looks fine here, you would need to take a photo to show it. Its either a monitor prob or driver.. same happened to me. Does it do the same in safe mode?

PinkFloyd · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:01

I'm not 100% sure of the problem here either....
Unless your on about the slim lines along the top?

Zefan · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:03

PinkFloyd said:
Unless your on about the slim lines along the top?

Yeah I was wondering what that was, but it doesn't look like any problem I can think of :confused:

Really need some feedback from fenderbass to work it out.

fenderbass86 · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:08

Really? You can't see it? No blurryness? Remeber that thread in GD when people were MS painting each others sigs, it looks like the desktop has been blurred and MS painted.

Zefan · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:12

fenderbass86 said:
Really? You can't see it? No blurryness? Remeber that thread in GD when people were MS painting each others sigs, it looks like the desktop has been blurred and MS painted.

Well it is a jpeg so it just looks like a bad jpeg :\

Stick a bitmap up, it'll be hefty but at least we'll be able to see.

Or just a good quality non resized jpeg?

fenderbass86 · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:18

Any Better?

LoadsaMoney · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:19

fenderbass86 said:
Really? You can't see it? No blurryness? Remeber that thread in GD when people were MS painting each others sigs, it looks like the desktop has been blurred and MS painted.

Nope as its just a JPEG so will look fine on our screens, needs to be a photograph.

Reminds me of those threads, 'is this a dead pixel' and the pic was just a JPEG.

Nope looks fine to me, looks better than the JPEG, need to take a photo of the screen as pics will always look fine on our screens.

Zefan · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:20

That still isn't very clear, got one not resized?

JonD · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:20

looks perfect to me... :confused:

fenderbass86 · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:23

I can't boot in safe mode. I'm pressing F8 but it keeps booting windows normally.

PinkFloyd · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:25

If the screen is slightly blurry trry altering your refresh rate.
On my tft 60Hz is crystal clear, whilst higher ones get distorted

Gandalf501 · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:44

Have u tried taking the old sound card out again? See if that fixes it?

fenderbass86 · 1 Sep 2006 at 12:51

Remember this is the monitor, not the actual quality of the camera!

It's absolutely fine in games though, it's just the desktop it occurs.

El_Watcher · 1 Sep 2006 at 13:05

Have you checked the number of colours the graphics driver is using? Looks a bit like it's running in like 16 colours.
Try uninstalling drivers and seeing what happens.
Although to be honest, as the first few shots you posted look ok it is more likely to be monitor issue. How many pins ar there in the monitor cable?

fenderbass86 · 1 Sep 2006 at 13:18

It's running 32 bit colours. Let me check the pin count.

Lonz · 1 Sep 2006 at 13:19

Considering that the Print Screens are fine and that the photo shows its messed up: I think its your monitor or some sort of signal output problem.

LoadsaMoney · 1 Sep 2006 at 13:23

I can't see it being a monitor problem if his games are running fine, as surely if he starts playing games, then those would look pink etc... as well. :confused: