8800GTS Problem

[Bigdefense77]

I just got my 8800GTS 640MB and installed the 92.97 drivers and I have awful, I guess ghosting effect, would be the term, on text and lines... it's pretty much only noticable on things that contrast.

I've never really seen anything like this.. the ghosting seems only to occur to the right of the object. For example "Firefox" looks like Firefoxxxx and the ghosted characters and lines fade after repeating 3 of 4 times.

This whole system is new. But the monitor is the same and never did this before. My prior card was analog out to analog on my LCD (it only has an analog port). But on this card I have to use an adapter because I obviously can't hook a DVi directly to my monitor - could that adapter be the issue?

Thanks for any help

 

[Bigdefense77]

Apparently it's not the drivers. Just uninstalled and nothing has changed

 

[nullpointerus]

Possibilities:

Wrong resolution/refresh rate set in advanced display properties?
Bad DVI port on the video card--have you tried the other one?
Bad DVI-to-VGA adapter?
Bad VGA cable--or are you reusing the old one?

You might also try downloading a program called powerstrip and tweaking some of the settings related to synchronization. Just don't do anything that will put the refresh rate (given in Hz) up too high, or you might risk damaging the monitor.

 

[Bigdefense77]

It's not the adapter.. I'm using the second one that came with the card.

How can I switch the DVI port thats sending video to my monitor? So I can rule out the card's port being the problem.

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: Bigdefense77
How can I switch the DVI port thats sending video to my monitor? So I can rule out the card's port being the problem.

Just shut down the computer, connect the cable/adapter to the other port, and turn the computer back on. The monitor *should* be automatically detected and enabled at boot.