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Shadow effect on new video card

Happy Hopping

Happy Hopping

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I just installed a GForce FX 5200 w/ 128 MB of RAM. The problem is everything I see has a shadow, from text to graphics. As I'm typing this right now, I can see a few vertical bar right next to the grey box.

Is this just a bad video card or some setting I have to adjust for my monitor? The monitor is functioning well before this card is installed.
 
when i had my subwoofer too close to my monitor, it started to look like that, i didnt even notice the subwoofer wasnt magneticly shielded till after the damage was done
 
No, it is not the subwoofer as my sub is many feets away.

The old video card is 1600x1200 MX 440.

The new video card should be 2048x1536. But it is only showing 1600x1200 on the display properties.

I take this new video card back to the manufacturer after I posted the above mesg., they exchange another to me, same problem. But the one I return is NOT doing these shadow effect at their place.

Almost as if the FX5200 is using my MX440 driver.
 
I'm having the same exact problem with my 8500LE... It gets slightly better when I change the refresh rate...

I dont know where it came from, I was fine since a week ago... I still think it might be my monitor but who knows
 
Sounds exactly like a crappy VGA cable.

Don't suppose your monitor can accept DVI input, can it? DVI cable would solve all those problems right out.

The MX card you had might well have been using a higher signal strength that compensated for an otherwise substandard VGA cable - explaining why the old card didn't have that effect. Another alternative would be to replace the VGA cable with a shorter one (no more than 6' - absolutely NEVER more than 6' for a VGA cable) that has ferrite chokes at one or both ends.
 
I'll give that a try, as I so happen to have a very good VGA cable, should have use it.

For the time being, I have try the following:

The supposedly power requirement on this card is 250W, since my power supply is 265W, it should be fine. But just for the hell of it, I disconnect the power cable of the 2nd hard drive and the CD-rom. Same thing. No change.

It is NOT a windows problem. As I boot up in the BIOS mode, just plain ASCII text display on screen, I am still seeing the 3+ vertical bar at the far left of the screen.
 
dderidex said:
Sounds exactly like a crappy VGA cable.

Don't suppose your monitor can accept DVI input, can it? DVI cable would solve all those problems right out.

The MX card you had might well have been using a higher signal strength that compensated for an otherwise substandard VGA cable - explaining why the old card didn't have that effect. Another alternative would be to replace the VGA cable with a shorter one (no more than 6' - absolutely NEVER more than 6' for a VGA cable) that has ferrite chokes at one or both ends.
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Guess what? It is the cable.

Dderidex, I truly appreciate your help in this matter. And while we are on the subject of cable. This very good cable has the ferrite choke (it is the big round thing, molded as part of the cable, right?) on one end only.

Which end of the cable with the ferrite choke near it should I connect the cable to? The video card end? Or the monitor end?

Ironically, this very good cable was 6 ft., but my rabbit chew off a small part near the end a few years ago, so I pay a professional cable co. to reconnect the cable. It is now a 5 ft. cable. :D
 
Happy Hopping said:
Dderidex, I truly appreciate your help in this matter. And while we are on the subject of cable. This very good cable has the ferrite choke (it is the big round thing, molded as part of the cable, right?) on one end only.

Which end of the cable with the ferrite choke near it should I connect the cable to? The video card end? Or the monitor end?
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Right, that's the thing you are looking for.

As to which end...hrm...that's a good question. I don't think you really have a choice, though, do you? I mean, the VGA cable is 'male' on one end and 'female' on the other, no? So you can only connect it one way?

If not, I'd guess to put the choke on the monitor end.
 
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THANK YOU SO MUCH AHAHAHA




It was cable for me too... I played with it and VIOLA, its all back to NORMAL
 
Yeah, can't believe that cable makes that much difference. I'll put the ferrite on the monitor end then. Thank you.
 
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