Cant catch a damn break!

[Heller]

well i leave my computer to go out for dinner, i come back and i have my windows screen saver on, but what else is there???? 350+ RED DEAD PIXELS! man i cant catch a damn break, this week is just not mine, now i gotta go get a new monitor.

oh also are dead pixels supposed to move or am just finding more cuz as the windows logo moves, more pop up, you don't think it had anything to do with the dead pixel buddy i ran a couple of times last week was it?

 

[tweakmm]

At least you have an LCD to bitch about having dead pixels for, and what more, a computer to hook said LCD up to, and an internet connection to get said computer online with.

At least you arn't a 7 year old girl in Kuala Lumpor who had to make said electronic gadgets.

 

[isekii]

If it's a Dell... just RMA it.
It comes with a 3 year warranty

 

[Nutdotnet]

Originally posted by: Heller91
well i leave my computer to go out for dinner, i come back and i have my windows screen saver on, but what else is there???? 350+ RED DEAD PIXELS! man i cant catch a damn break, this week is just not mine, now i gotta go get a new monitor.

oh also are dead pixels supposed to move or am just finding more cuz as the windows logo moves, more pop up, you don't think it had anything to do with the dead pixel buddy i ran a couple of times last week was it?

Is it under warranty?

 

[HN]

are you sure it's dead pixels and not burned-in afterimage of the windows movement?

 

[Ika]

Sounds like it's your video card that's the problem.

 

[Heller]

its a dell, but im not the orignal owner, and im not sure how old it is, its a dell e171fpb.

 

[IGBT]

..mabe it has built in holiday lights.

 

[Heller]

my friend has the same videocard as me, the same THING happend one random day, he has the same card, saem manufacturer (xfx) and everything. heres a ss of whats happening to me, when i drag along the xfirw box its like an etch a sketch of red lines devloping but if i refrsh the monitor it all goes away, and now that i think of it, i have had alot of artifacts on CS:S latley


http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot003yo8.jpg

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Heller91
my friend has the same videocard as me, the same THING happend one random day, he has the same card, saem manufacturer (xfx) and everything. heres a ss of whats happening to me, when i drag along the xfirw box its like an etch a sketch of red lines devloping but if i refrsh the monitor it all goes away, and now that i think of it, i have had alot of artifacts on CS:S latley

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but dead pixels stay dead right? You arn't just going to get 350+ showing up at once out of the blue right?

New videocard time buddy.
::whip cracks on 7yo Malaysian girl::

 

[Heller]

damn and now more and more are apearing,IT HASTA be the vid card right?

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: IGBT
..mabe it has built in holiday lights.

:laugh:

 

[slpaulson]

That doesn't sound like a monitor problem to me.
Sounds like bad drivers, or maybe a video card overheating.
Did you restart the thing?

 

[cubby1223]

Sounds like faulty video card or faulty ram.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Heller91
damn and now more and more are apearing,IT HASTA be the vid card right?

Do you HAVE anoth vid card?
Or AnOtH system to hook your moni. up to?

 

[Slacker]

The problem is the vid card, prob. fried memory, your friend swapped his dead card into your box?

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
faulty ram.

i vote bad video card RAM

try a different video card on it

 

[Heller]

no my friend is online 5 states north of me, also i hooked up a diff rig , and no "holiday lights" so now i guess i gotta RMA the vid card to XFX or newegg? (i bought it from newegg)

 

[ranmaniac]

Sounds like a light brite, only less useful.

 

[Heller]

thanks for every one who actually gave helpful advice, it is indeed the vid cad.r