Drivers, Card, or Monitor Issue?

Waterbug · Dec 8, 2004, 12:57 PM

Having a strange problem. Started after I installed the latest Omega drivers. On startup, I will get graphics corruption, even at the POST screen, the text is interlaced with horizontal lines, making it nearly unreadable. Problem continues into Windows XP. Multiple restarts eventually fixes the problem, and it never occurs AFTER startup. Either it starts all screwy and stays that way or starts fine and remains fine for hours on end.
What is most likely to cause this problem, any guesses? Anyone else having this problem with the latest Omegas.

My vid card is an ATI 9700 Pro.

If it is the drivers, what would be the best solution, driver rollback or system restore?

Thanks much.

reholli · Dec 12, 2004, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Waterbug

Having a strange problem. Started after I installed the latest Omega drivers. On startup, I will get graphics corruption, even at the POST screen, the text is interlaced with horizontal lines, making it nearly unreadable. Problem continues into Windows XP. Multiple restarts eventually fixes the problem, and it never occurs AFTER startup. Either it starts all screwy and stays that way or starts fine and remains fine for hours on end.
What is most likely to cause this problem, any guesses? Anyone else having this problem with the latest Omegas.

My vid card is an ATI 9700 Pro.

If it is the drivers, what would be the best solution, driver rollback or system restore?

Thanks much.

Well, as the graphics card driver doesn't even come into play until the operating system loads it, the POST screen corruption would be hard to blame on the driver, wouldn't you think?

Unless something about the driver is corrupting graphics card memory during Windows operation or interfering with the proper flushing of graphics card memory during a reboot (assuming graphics card memory even flushes on reboot...anyone know if it does?).

Anyway, you can always try a driver rollback first, and then a system restore if that doesn't help.

I'd try some of the obvious hardware things like reseating the graphics card in the AGP slot and making sure the PSU connector to the card is properly seated, also.

123 · Dec 14, 2004, 11:55 PM

I have this problem too, and a friend that bought the same card(we have 9500np's that can turn into 9700pro's) at the same store at the same day has the same problem :P

I've tried since then to explain this, but couldn't. The last thing I can try is to set AGP to 4x, maybe it'll help. Upping AGP voltage didn't.

Dec 8, 2004, 12:57 PM	#1
Waterbug DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Drivers, Card, or Monitor Issue? Having a strange problem. Started after I installed the latest Omega drivers. On startup, I will get graphics corruption, even at the POST screen, the text is interlaced with horizontal lines, making it nearly unreadable. Problem continues into Windows XP. Multiple restarts eventually fixes the problem, and it never occurs AFTER startup. Either it starts all screwy and stays that way or starts fine and remains fine for hours on end. What is most likely to cause this problem, any guesses? Anyone else having this problem with the latest Omegas. My vid card is an ATI 9700 Pro. If it is the drivers, what would be the best solution, driver rollback or system restore? Thanks much.

Dec 14, 2004, 11:55 PM	#3
123 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 14 Rep Power: 0	I have this problem too, and a friend that bought the same card(we have 9500np's that can turn into 9700pro's) at the same store at the same day has the same problem :P I've tried since then to explain this, but couldn't. The last thing I can try is to set AGP to 4x, maybe it'll help. Upping AGP voltage didn't.