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My old XFX 8800GT died and they shipped me a new one. I physically installed it, hooked it up to the same monitor I was using before, and the entire screen is shifted to the left about 1-1.5 inches and up about 0.25 - 0.5 inches.
First, I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers, rebooted into Safe Mode, ran Driver Cleaner, booted normally, grabbed and installed the latest Nvidia drivers, rebooted, no luck. Did the same thing as above with the older drivers on the disk they sent with the new card. No luck. Tried again with the latest Omega drivers. No luck. If I change to lower resolutions (1900x1200 default) the issue still persists. If I remove the drivers, everything is fine (aside from obviously not being able to play games.)
Tried both DVI ports in the back of the card, same thing. However, if I use the analog cable from the monitor and use a vga-to-dvi adapter, it works fine. I'll probably try component soon.
Tried messing around with my monitor settings (LG L246WP 24" WS) but cannot "push" the screen to the right as those controls are disabled for HDMI/DVI. Same for everything I looked at in the Nvidia control panel. I've uninstalled and re-installed the lasted drivers for my monitor. I used the controls on the monitor to set it to factory defaults.
I installed Power Strip and it lets me push the screen to the right some, but not enough. Even if I do that, shortly after I do it, the screen begins to blink rapidly. This happens whenever I change pretty much any of the settings in the "Advanced Timing Options" settings. I've tried making random changes in both the Power Strip and Nvidia Control panel to many things, including timing settings (Sync Width, Sync polarity, etc.,) with very little success. Once I did change one of those settings in Power Strip and it looked like it was going to fix it, but the blinking started happening again and I was unable to replicate it.
Any ideas? Sorry for the long post, but I was trying to be as thorough as possible. The next thing I was going to try was taking the card to a friend's house to see if I could replicate the problem there.
First, I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers, rebooted into Safe Mode, ran Driver Cleaner, booted normally, grabbed and installed the latest Nvidia drivers, rebooted, no luck. Did the same thing as above with the older drivers on the disk they sent with the new card. No luck. Tried again with the latest Omega drivers. No luck. If I change to lower resolutions (1900x1200 default) the issue still persists. If I remove the drivers, everything is fine (aside from obviously not being able to play games.)
Tried both DVI ports in the back of the card, same thing. However, if I use the analog cable from the monitor and use a vga-to-dvi adapter, it works fine. I'll probably try component soon.
Tried messing around with my monitor settings (LG L246WP 24" WS) but cannot "push" the screen to the right as those controls are disabled for HDMI/DVI. Same for everything I looked at in the Nvidia control panel. I've uninstalled and re-installed the lasted drivers for my monitor. I used the controls on the monitor to set it to factory defaults.
I installed Power Strip and it lets me push the screen to the right some, but not enough. Even if I do that, shortly after I do it, the screen begins to blink rapidly. This happens whenever I change pretty much any of the settings in the "Advanced Timing Options" settings. I've tried making random changes in both the Power Strip and Nvidia Control panel to many things, including timing settings (Sync Width, Sync polarity, etc.,) with very little success. Once I did change one of those settings in Power Strip and it looked like it was going to fix it, but the blinking started happening again and I was unable to replicate it.
Any ideas? Sorry for the long post, but I was trying to be as thorough as possible. The next thing I was going to try was taking the card to a friend's house to see if I could replicate the problem there.
