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nVidia 8600GT or Viewsonic causing color issues.

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rivrbyte

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MSI MS7345 Platinum MoBo
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NVidia GeForce 8600GT / Viewsonic VX2035 LCD Wide

Hi,
I also posted some of this message over on the Monitor Forums, because I simply do not know which is causing my problem. The GPU, or my Monitor. :confused:

December of 2007, I purchased a GeForce nVidia 8600GT PCI-E 513MB DDR2 128 BIT GPU.

In March 2007, I purchased a new Viewsonic Vx2035wm LCD 20" Widescreen Monitor.
Are there any signs I may see before either of these two things go out?

I noticed a changing of colors, starting with the boot up language on the screen that is ordinarily white, but once or twice tonight when booting up, the letters and numbers seem to be switching from white to a light pink. I also see color changes on the desktop, and even now, while I'm typing this out in Word, the blank white area on the page seems to be fading in and out.

I just re-installed Windows 7 Pro, and installed the most recent drivers for both these devices. Is there any way to pin point which of these two devices could be going out?

Are there any other tests on these devices to see what going on? I was going to upgrade my GPU when I upgrade my MSI P35 Platinum MoBo with a newer board with DDR3, more memory, and a faster Intel i5, or i7, I'm just not ready to do that right now, if this is the GPU. I think this Mobo had integrated graphics onboard, in case it is the GPU.

Thank you!
 
If I was you I'd take the GPU out right now and just test the monitor on the integrated video. Unless you have another system int he house you can check the monitor on. I'm willing to wager it's the monitor though.
 
I had A 19'' viewsonic do almost the same thing. Google how to do a factory reset. I know mine was good as new after.
 
Ok, Thanks.
I called Viewsonic and he had me to change the screen res, from 1280x800 to 1280x1024, and change the refresh rate from 75 to 60 Hz. Went into screen main men and change back to factory settings and refreshed monitor.

The color is not spotty but uniform. I noticed again today the bootup sequence language on the screen was a light pink then changed to white, I can also see it while writing this message against the white background.

Viewsonic could not tell me what causing it, only to do what you said, and that it to replace video cable or check this monitor on another computer, which so happens, that I have my niece's HP, that she wanted me to some maintenance on it, since it's been sitting around for two years. I'll see and check back.

I have to go into video card settings...but what am I looking for to tweek?

You said to "Remove video card and use integrated video"....should that automatically work, or do you think I had to unplug integrated video from motherboard in order to use the GPU PCI-E card? or do most mobos recognize the GPU and instead uses that one instead? Thanks a bunch!
 
If you have an extra computer at the house right now, I'd just plug the monitor into that one and see if you have the same issue, if you do, it's the monitor, if you don't, it's your GPU.
 
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