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Video Card or LCD Issues?

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Alright so i Have a GTX 560ti and a 27" Hanns G LCD

Just a quick note:
The monitor only has HDMI and VGA
ive tried a regular HDMI cable and an HDMI to DVI


Alright, so in 2D mode I notice some pixel size colors flickering.. usually its mostly green and its really spaced out. Its not stuck pixels or anything.
. Because they randomly flicker all over the screen.. and its almost like static. Its really hard to explain. It seems to do it the most on dark green colors..

Ive noticed it does it a little in 3d games, but not too much.
No artifacting or crashing though.


Thoughts?



UPDATE:

Also forgot to mention that it flickers when i bring the computer from idle. The screen will go black for 1-2 seconds about 3 times over the course of the first 20-30 seconds that its running.

When i look really closely, you can tell that the little dots are going in a pattern. So it seems like some sort of interference or something. Im going to try a new monitor because thats what it seems like to me.

UPDATE 2:

Okay im going to revive this thread just because I havent gotten a chance to do much with the PC since i opened it.
Now im getting some random Driver crashes in Windows.
Here is the kicker. I have yet to have a single issue playing 3D games, and sometimes its been for a couple of hours at a time.
The driver crash pretty much has me 75% sure its a defective Video Card
BUT
When i press the physical Menu button for my LCD I still see the Green dots all over the actual MENU. This confuses me since the LCD menu shouldnt be processed through the video card..... right?
I still havent tested another monitor. May go borrow one tomorrow to test it with. Once confirmed I will move forward with the RMA.

I did a google search and noticed alot of other people having the same issue, some people fixed it by reseating the card (tried, didnt fix) also changing out the video cable (still didnt fix it), and of course RMA.
I hear MSI can be a nightmare to RMA with so im not looking forward to that at all. :/
 
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Have you tried another HDMI cable? I'm gonna assume that you have been trying the same hdmi cable when you connected it directly through HDMI and also when you plugged in the dvi-hdmi dongle in the card.

What I suggest you do is the following

1 take a screenshot when this is happening- Hit the print screen button
2. Open paint in windows and paste the image using cntrl-v command
3. Save the file as a jpeg and email it to yourself
4. Open the picture on another monitor and computer.

If you see the distortion in the picture it's the videocard
If you do not see the green distortion in the picture it's the monitor or cable.
 
Lord_Exodia said:
Have you tried another HDMI cable? I'm gonna assume that you have been trying the same hdmi cable when you connected it directly through HDMI and also when you plugged in the dvi-hdmi dongle in the card.

What I suggest you do is the following

1 take a screenshot when this is happening- Hit the print screen button
2. Open paint in windows and paste the image using cntrl-v command
3. Save the file as a jpeg and email it to yourself
4. Open the picture on another monitor and computer.

If you see the distortion in the picture it's the videocard
If you do not see the green distortion in the picture it's the monitor or cable.
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Actually it is different cables. One is an HDMI cable and the other is an HDMI to Dvi cable. No Dongle used. Tried a couple of HDMI CAbles as well.

Ill try what you said and let you know results

UPDATE:

did not see the dots on the screen shot.

Also if you didnt see it, read my update to the main post.
 
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nicknations said:
Actually it is different cables. One is an HDMI cable and the other is an HDMI to Dvi cable. No Dongle used. Tried a couple of HDMI CAbles as well.

Ill try what you said and let you know results

UPDATE:

did not see the dots on the screen shot.

Also if you didnt see it, read my update to the main post.
Click to expand...

Okay thats strange, I saw the update to the OP. It seems to me it could be the monitor. A videocard doesn't know how to show artifacts on a screen only. It puts out what it calculates. If your not seeing it in your screen shot then that tells me it's a monitor issue.
 
ttt new update.. any more last minute advice before RMA.

The Green dots flickering on the LCD Menu have me a bit confused!
 
Lord_Exodia said:
A videocard doesn't know how to show artifacts on a screen only. It puts out what it calculates. If your not seeing it in your screen shot then that tells me it's a monitor issue.
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Unless the problem is somewhere between the VRAM and the output port. But my money would be on the monitor as well.

EDIT: Just read the last post. Artifacts over the OSD rules out the card or the cables.
 
but could my LCD be causing my video card to crash?

it IS on an HDMI cable.. so i guess its possible eh?
 
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