eVGA 6800GT problem

[Nocturnal]

Only when I'm in Windows I notice near the clock in the lower right hand corner if I look well enough I can see like a line of interference. I don't know how to describe it other than it isn't normal. I installed the drivers and everything is up to date. Any ideas what this might be? Could I have a defective card?

 

[CheesePoofs]

pic?

Are you sure it isn't your monitor?

 

[imported_Noob]

Weird stuff like that started happening with my 9800 Pro. If more weird stuff like that on the desktop probably means the card is defective. If you get weird stuff like that in the BIOS your card is definitely defective.

 

[Nocturnal]

The thing is I don't get it in bios or anything like that. Only in Windows.

 

[imported_Noob]

Can you show a pic?

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

my friend has the same prob with the radeon 9800 pro, with a dell ultrasharp monitor. weird. also, a pic would not detect the lines.

 

[temin]

I know when I jack up the refresh on my LCD at a high resolution I can get little wiggly lines of "interference."

 

[Burrbaby]

I used to get this when I was using cheaper vga cables (the ones without the ferrite blocks on the end. I've got the same video card (ega 6800gt). I bought a better cable and it went away.

 

[Megatomic]

I experienced this issue also, it spanned 3 video cards and 2 monitors. The problem turned out NOT to be in my computer but in my house wiring... I replaced the breaker that fed that room and the receptacles in the entire upstairs of my house and the problem vanished. There was noise in my electrical system that was causing this to happen.

How confident are you that your power is clean? My surge supressor (Cyber Power) didn't filter it. Too bad I didn't get my APC UPS until after I fixed this issue.

 

[Nocturnal]

The thing is I'm using only DVI and prior to this I've never seen it occur on any of my systems.

The thing is now that it blinks every couple of minutes. The other DVI port is fine though.

 

[Megatomic]

Well that is pretty suspicious of the card being bad. An RMA may be in order. Best to do so while it's still under warranty, eh?