Many display problems

[Thyme]

I have many probbaly-related display problems.

Setup:
Primary:
ELSA Gladiac Geforce2 GTS (Driver v 1240)
Samsung SyncMaster 753DF
Secondary:
3DLabs Permedia2
Generic 15" MAG monitor pulled from a 486 that can do 1024X768




Problem 1:
In Win2k, The primary monitor has a line going top to bottom. It's about 1/3cm of lighter pixels and then about a 1cm of darker. It does this slowly at 1280X1024, and quickly at 800X600, but not at 1024X768.
Problem 2:
On boot up and after a hard reboot with the second monitor disabled, the screen shakes. The content is visable, but it's a big pain.
Problem 3:
It also shakes in Linux. That might be because I'm using the generic drivers. It also might be because the second monitor isn't enabled, but it is detected.


Well, that's the brute of it. Any ideas?

 

[DaLiNKquiNT]

Power supply, or even RF interference. Try not to plug everything into one socket use two or three. I had a similar problem with my monitor doing wierd stuff and just moving it to its own socket made it work flawlessly.

 

[Thyme]

I moved it to its own socket, but it still does the same thing. If power is the cause, then the problem may be the same problem that makes the lights dim when the AC comes on. Damn power crap lately.

 

[Duvie]

sounds like the monitor refresh rates may need to be changed...is your monitor correctly identified in OS and set to optimal refresh rate?

If it is rfi...move any desktop speakers further away...check cables in back...maybe move sound card to lower slots...I dunno never seen rfi cause problems like that in my experience...speakers can cause some concentric distortion related to speakers postion...I have had rfi issues when hooking vid card/ dvd decoder to stereo system and got an annoying buzzing in speaker...better quality cables and surge protector/ filter cleared that up...

 

[Thyme]

It's at 60hz, which is all that's supported for the resolution.

The speakers (DTT2500) are something-shielded. But i'll try moving the stuff away.

 

[Thyme]

Unless it's really sensetive, I don't think that's the problem. It's really consistant so I don't really think it's any interference.

 

[Kueay]

What you need to do is reconfigure the coaxial partition with the variance of the HD, Thus enabling the router to bipass the transmition mainframe..
fairly easy if u ask me.

 

[Thyme]

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