Power Colur 4850 1 GB Fault ? Anyone else had this issue ?

[Behemoth]

Before I phone up OcUK support tomorrow just want to make sure that the card that I had delivered today is faulty.

Nature of the problem is that when using the top DVI socket my monitor (Samsung SM2053BW) flickers on and off, doesn't do it all the time, and at first it did when installing drivers (I've got the latest Catalyest installed) which I was expecting to see the display flicker when installing new drivers.

I wasn't expecting it to do it when I was just browsing the net, it would do it every couple of hours but never when gaming. I rebooted into Linux and it happened there also.

I connected to the bottom DVI socket and it's been absolutley fine. Now I could keep the card as it is as I currently only run one monitor, but when I have space I would like at some point to run a second one.

Anybody else had a similar problem ?

I'm open to the fact it could just be me and maybe I'm being lazy by not doing a re-install of Vista 64 bit (needs doing really, 12 months or so on same install)

Rest of PC is

AMD Athlon X2 5200
Asus M4A78 Motherboard
4 GIG DDR2 Corsair
OCZ Stealth Stram 500 watt psu

 

[bodybag]

I had exact same problem but with an nvidia card a 6800 a few years back and like you I switched to the other port and it worked.

I just left it as that and it worked flawless, up until a few months ago when the card died!

sorry if I couldnt be more help, but maybe a driver issue?

 

[stupidcha]

ooo... sounds faulty to me

good idea to call up ocuk support tomm.

 

[Behemoth]

I was playing TF2 about an hour ago and that crashed, am tempted to try a a clean install of Vista on a different drive just in case though.