Video Card Device

ATIorNvidia · 22 Jan 2007 at 12:57

I have been getting this problem for quite a while now, My monitor randomly goes blank and causes me to restart my computer. Ive looked on the Microsoft website an they suggest its my Video Card Device or something like that, which does sound right , because this has only been happening since i had my new monitor, so what do i have to do?

tim_enchanter · 22 Jan 2007 at 13:03

ATIorNvidia said:
so what do i have to do?

Give more info for a start.
Even if it was your monitor causing it you've not told us what it is or your GFX etc :confused:

ATIorNvidia · 22 Jan 2007 at 14:57

tim_enchanter said:
Give more info for a start.
Even if it was your monitor causing it you've not told us what it is or your GFX etc

Its a Hanns G HW191D Widescreen

I have a ati radeon saphirre 9250.
This problem did notoccur with my old CRT monitor only when i got a new monitor

furnace · 22 Jan 2007 at 15:54

Have you tried putting your old monitor back on? To see if it's definately the new monitor causing the problem

ATIorNvidia · 22 Jan 2007 at 16:28

furnace said:
Have you tried putting your old monitor back on? To see if it's definately the new monitor causing the problem

Yes ive done that and everything is fine with my old CRT monitor
also ive tried VGA Mode and still the same problem

robmac · 22 Jan 2007 at 16:37

new monitor is at fault then.

furnace · 22 Jan 2007 at 16:48

Yeah, that's gotta be a borked monitor. Unless for some strange reason your graphics card has problems with a TFT monitor or something.

Can you try out the monitor on another computer?

ATIorNvidia · 23 Jan 2007 at 15:54

Also this does not happen when the computer is idle, nor when im playing games, it also doesnt happen on my other partition...

tim_enchanter · 23 Jan 2007 at 16:40

Fair enough, I just can't say I've heard of a monitor to cause a pc to reset before.
I would have thought it's more likely that the GFX card can't handle running the screen, but I've been wrong plenty of times in the past :rolleyes:

ATIorNvidia · 24 Jan 2007 at 14:35

tim_enchanter said:
Fair enough, I just can't say I've heard of a monitor to cause a pc to reset before.
I would have thought it's more likely that the GFX card can't handle running the screen, but I've been wrong plenty of times in the past

It does 4 different things

It either resets the computer (but then i get a Microsoft Recovered from system error thing)

It either goes blank and doesnt come back on forcing me to restart the computer

It either it goes off, comes back on then everything is slow

Or it goes off, comes back on and changes the resolution to 1024x768 and change 32 bit colours to 16 bit colours.

ATIorNvidia · 24 Jan 2007 at 21:43

anyone?

krisboats · 25 Jan 2007 at 00:05

ATIorNvidia said:
It either resets the computer (but then i get a Microsoft Recovered from system error thing)

I think i'm correct in saying that it isn't possible for the computer to have a system error.

ATIorNvidia said:
It either goes blank and doesnt come back on forcing me to restart the computer

Do you have to restart the computer or can you not just unplug the monitor and then turn it back on.

ATIorNvidia said:
It either it goes off, comes back on then everything is slow

Completely unsure here, but again i don't think the screen can make the computer "go slow"

ATIorNvidia said:
Or it goes off, comes back on and changes the resolution to 1024x768 and change 32 bit colours to 16 bit colours.

Pretty sure thats the graphics card doing that, have a look in the menu subsystem for the monitor to see if its possible to change the screen resolution on the monitor, although i don't think you'll be able to.

Is the resolution and refresh rate the same as it was with the old monitor or is it running at higher resolution now? If its higher resolution i ouwld imagine it being your graphics card that isn't coping with it.

furnace · 25 Jan 2007 at 00:55

Did you properly install the lastest gfx drivers?
(uninstall from add/remove programs, restart into safe mode, run driver cleaner, restart into normal mode, install new drivers)

Have you tried turning it off then on again? (haha just had to say that, im just kidding)

Have you tried the TFT monitor on another computer?

Maybe it's something to do with the graphics card and the monitor resolution..?

ATIorNvidia · 26 Jan 2007 at 16:17

I used to have a 17 inch CRT Monitor now i have a 19 inch widescreen monitor, my old resolution was, 1024x768 my new resolution is 1440x900 which when this happens , it change BACK to 1024x768

Im gonna test my monitor on a m8s computer this evening hopefully.

ATIorNvidia · 28 Jan 2007 at 07:07

Bump,
I am starting to think its my GFX Card , but Neither a borked monitor or GFX problems would explain how it works perfectly fine on my other partition

tim_enchanter · 28 Jan 2007 at 11:44

ATIorNvidia said:
Bump,
I am starting to think its my GFX Card , but Neither a borked monitor or GFX problems would explain how it works perfectly fine on my other partition

Well if it works without a problem in one partion? do you have a multi OS install?
Then it has to be software.

furnace said:
Did you properly install the lastest gfx drivers?
(uninstall from add/remove programs, restart into safe mode, run driver cleaner, restart into normal mode, install new drivers)

Have you done this?

The only other thing is if you are only gaming on the problem partition! and thats the only time it crashes then it could just be that the hardware can't deal with it, that is a damn old card