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Blinking BIOS screen

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guysmiley

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Hi,

I just got a new computer with an ASUS K8V motherboard, Athalon 64 3200+, 1Gb RAM and I tried the new BFG nVidia 6800GT (256Mb RAM) video card, and during the BIOS boot screens (or the BIOS config screens), my monitor blinks off and on randomly every few seconds. Once I get into Windows XP it stops blinking. If I open a DOS "cmd" window and make it full-screen (with Atl-Enter) the random off/on blinking comes back, until I exit that cmd window (or make it a window again).

I spent some time on the BFG tech support line the other evening, and tried what the tech suggested (changing BIOS setting, etc), but we were unable to fix the blinking problem.

I updated to the latest BIOS available from ASUS, but that did not fix the problem.

I exchanged the card where I bought it (Best Buy), and got a different BFG nVidia 6800 (128Mb RAM) video card (they didn't have any of the 256Mb GT boards in stock anymore) and it does the same thing.

Has anyone else seen a simmilar problem, and how did you fix it?

I'm wondering if I should return this 2nd 6800 board and get a different brand or if I should just go with an ATI based card. (I did try an ATI 9500/9700 in there, and it worked fine, but I wanted a faster card.)

Thanks!
 
That actually sounds like a monitor problem to me.

What monitor are you using?

Poke around in the monitor's menu. (if it has one) Check if you keep that menu open if it will still turn off. etc.

==>lazn
 
Hey! Thanks for the suggestion!

You were right on the money! I didn't even think to try a different monitor, since it worked fine with my previous (ATI based) video card in the same system. At your suggestion, I did try another (different brand and model) monitor, and it worked fine with no blinking!

I'm using a KDS Avitron AV-21TF (21") monitor. It has an "auto calibration" feature, but that didn't help. None of the setting in the monitor OSD menus helped either.

What DOES help, is if I boot my system, and AFTER the blinking starts, I turn the monitor off and back on, the blinking clears up. Very wierd!

Thanks for the tip, I probably never would have tried it otherwise!
 
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