X1600Pro Problem - Horizontal line flashes?

Kagi · Aug 12, 2006, 11:21 PM

I recently bought a x1600pro agp 512mb card. After I got it installed, i noticed on the first startup that I was getting horizontal line flashes about 1/4 from the top and bottom of my monitor. Figuring it was probably a driver or bios problem, I continued to install the catalyst drivers and such in XP. But after all was said and done, the same line flashes that i was getting before were appearing after certain programs were opened in XP.

At this point I figured that it was a bios problem and my board needed an update. I have a D875PBZ board from Intel, and managed to get the bios flashed to the newest version. Unfortunately no change.

The flashes seem to appear several times while windows is starting, and when certain programs like the catalyst control center or games are started. It only happens once when they are started, and doesn't affect it as long as the program is running. But as soon as a new instance of the program is started, flashes again.

Right now, I really don't know what to do. I'm out of ideas as to what can be causing this. It's been about 3 weeks since i've had the card now. I popped my old radeon 9200 back in and it worked fine. Is this something that occurs? or should I look into contacting ATI? Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

niceguyrichy · Aug 13, 2006, 05:20 PM

well the fact that you can pop your old card in and it's all hunky dory suggests a driver conflict.
use DriverCleaner (pro edition is free) following the detailed instructions in the 'read me' (< that bit's important), and then try installing new drivers

Yousaif · Aug 14, 2006, 07:01 AM

Don't know what causes them, but I think it has something to do with when the resolution settings are modified. I've seen it at boot and when I boot into games that run at a different resolution than my desktop.

Black screen, red lines about 1/3 and 2/3's of the way down the screen.

I'm not worried about them, though I have never seen them with another card. Must be one of those "features" of the 1600 series.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 14, 2006, 07:25 AM

Try adjusting your monitor via its buttions, part of the screen your not supposed
to see is being shown it sound like your monitor is mis adjusted

Yousaif · Aug 14, 2006, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Neon_Cowboy

Try adjusting your monitor via its buttions, part of the screen your not supposed
to see is being shown it sound like your monitor is mis adjusted

That's not it. When up and running the display is perfect.

I've seen this on another 1600PRO system that I put together recently. Its most likely just a quirk of the card.

Kagi · Aug 14, 2006, 07:00 PM

Thanks for the reply's. I really appreciate it. I'll try to use drivercleaner and see if that helps. But since it's occuring at launch i'm thinking that the only thing that might help is a bios update for the card itself. As far as the monitor. I"ll plug an old monitor in and see if I still have the same problems. Thanks again.

khagaroth · Aug 15, 2006, 07:59 AM

Is it a Sapphire card? There were these problems with them (and some others, like freezing on NF4 boards), there is a new bios, that should fix this problem.