Gray Lines in Monitor

driverdriver · Jul 28, 2004, 05:38 PM

i know o few poeple who run nvidia based graphic card all of a sudden run into this problem of getting sudden gray lines appear in monitor, anyone have a clue whats causing this....

thestryder · Mar 9, 2005, 07:44 PM

I'm having the same problem.

Everytime I turn on the PC, the screen gets filled with gray lines (vertical parallel) ,
both during the boot process and in Windows.
Did you find some clue about how to fix it?

Judas · Mar 9, 2005, 08:28 PM

...hmm..... have you tried another monitor... (doubt it would be that)

it could be a problem with the card itself IF it's showing this even while booting up.. (before the drivers are loaded)

thestryder · Mar 10, 2005, 11:09 AM

I tried other monitors and computers. The Geforce it's the problem.
I'm not sure that it can be overheating... if was it, then is heating very very fast.
My geforce was never overclocked, and his model have only a heatsink without fan.

If update bios can resolve the problem?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judas

...hmm..... have you tried another monitor... (doubt it would be that)

it could be a problem with the card itself IF it's showing this even while booting up.. (before the drivers are loaded)

sc3000 · Mar 10, 2005, 02:54 PM

try buying a can of air and dusting it out

Judas · Mar 10, 2005, 04:11 PM

if your sure it's the geforce... it probably is... usually the lines or weird corruption is due to a hardware failure of some kind and a bios update i'm sure will not change it. Course before throwing it out and getting a new one.. it may be worth it to try updating the bios just for the sake of the meer percent chance that it does fix it.

Sorry, but that's as far as my knowledge goes with a video card.

thestryder · Mar 13, 2005, 09:19 AM

thanks for your help.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judas

if your sure it's the geforce... it probably is... usually the lines or weird corruption is due to a hardware failure of some kind and a bios update i'm sure will not change it. Course before throwing it out and getting a new one.. it may be worth it to try updating the bios just for the sake of the meer percent chance that it does fix it.

Sorry, but that's as far as my knowledge goes with a video card.