Graphics problem on bootup

[Andvari]

Me and my friend both had/have this problem. We both built our own computers, and both have ATI Radeon 9800 Pros (mine is 256mb, his is 128 though). Anyway, occasionally when we boot up or reboot our computer, the display is all scrambled and screwed up. Rebooting again fixes the problem.

Is this a natural problem with Radeon cards? Or did we build faulty computers? My computer has ran fine otherwise for the months that I've had it. It plays games fine, runs Windows fine, does everything fine. Got good scores on benchmarking software I ran. Temperature's fine. Everything seems to be normal, except that random occurance of a graphical problem at boot.

Any ideas on what causes this?

 

[Algere]

I don't remember what option exactly but it might be a option in the BIOS pertaining to the video e.g. video BIOS shadow or something which may cause video corruption if enabled.

 

[neovan]

this could be the refresh rate of the monitor. what type of monitor do you have?

 

[Andvari]

A several year old, no-name brand monitor. (Well, it has a name. CyberMax, but they went out of business heh.) If it's the refresh rate, why would it happen only sometimes and not other times?

 

[AtTheGates]

I have the same thing with my 9700 pro. Starting happen right after one of the cat updates (3.9 maybe). Restart doesn't work for me. I have to use the switch on the psu. I don't worry about it because it doesn't happen very often. Mainly after installs.

 

[nprotz]

I too am getting this problem...it's like you can see some of the things on the screen and the rest is garbage, even after it boots into windows......i have to switch the ps off then back on.....it happened right after I updated to the newest cat drivers