___ Onboard video going bad? ___

Blain

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Oct 9, 1999
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A friend of mine has an Asus P2B-VT (BX chipset). It's an Asus OEM board manufactured for HP. It has onboard video, audio. The board has integrated TNT1 video.

His screen resolution sometimes slips back to 640x480. He's loaded the latest nVidia drivers for it, and that helped his 3D Mark 2000 score. He reboots and sometimes the resolution goes back to normal, but sometimes he only gets a black screen with a blinking cursor. He has reloaded the original drivers but the same things happen.
He installed a new HD about a month ago with a fresh "Recovery Disk" reload. It's been working fine, up to about a week ago.
This problem is very random. It alternates between 1. good resolution, 2. 640x480 and 3. the black screen.

Does it sound like his onboard video is getting ready to make an exit?


Thanks :)

BTW, He's the original owner of the system. And he hasn't ever OC'd the CPU or video.
 

mattyrug

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Sep 25, 2000
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Blain, I had a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI Card that does the same thing, it's a Dell 1504 Trinitron.
It could be many things, but it sounds like a problem I have -
One thing you can try, and let me know if it works, is go into the Display Settings, and under Monitors, uncheck the box that says 'Automatically Detect Plug & Play Monitors'.
I know with my Dell Monitor (2nd display) It Detects it fine the first time I boot, then if I re-boot it'll detect it as a Plug & Play Monitor (generic). I unchecked the P & P Box, and It holds the Resolution fine, now.
LMK how u make out.