New 6800 problems

[Jray]

Hi all,
Just installed my shiny new Chaintech 6800 - AA6800. The first thing that jumped out at me was that the text in Windows is "blurry" (for lack of a better word). It looks like there's a ghost of the text almost, like you can see the letters twice. I don't know how to describe it. I installed the newest drivers - 61.77. I completely uninstalled my old ATI drivers with Driver Cleaner first. I played around with some settings as well and I can't figure it out. Help? Known issue? I've searched around some...

System Specs:
AMD XP 2100+ (running at 2400+ speed)
1GB PC2700 RAM
EP-8RDA+ mobo
Windows XP Home

I think that's it. I just replaced a 9500pro that was working fine. I noticed the blurry text immediately on bootup.

Thanks in advance!

 

[nitromullet]

Double check your resolution/refresh rate and degauss your monitor. If that doesn't work, RMA the card.... You shouldn't be having this problem.

 

[Jray]

Thanks. Resolution and refresh rate are fine. Degauss didn't help.

Crap. I hate it when stuff like this happens... you get all excited for a new "toy" and then it doesn't work right. Back to newegg it goes I guess.

 

[Jray]

Anyone else have an opinion on something to try? I already got an RMA from newegg but I'd like to avoid the whole process if possible. I'm out of ideas but I'm hoping someone else has seen a problem like this before.

Thanks!

 

[Keysplayr]

Use the NV Control panel applet in your taskbar to set screen refresh rate and choose to override.
Set the refresh and resolutions to only what your monitor was made to handle. Dont go crazy.

 

[Valour]

Originally posted by: Jray
Anyone else have an opinion on something to try? I already got an RMA from newegg but I'd like to avoid the whole process if possible. I'm out of ideas but I'm hoping someone else has seen a problem like this before.

Thanks!

Not that you should have to do this, but have you tried the card on a clean Windows install? I know people debate about this all the time when installing a new video card. Ordinarily, it isn't needed, but since you are having a problem, I think it would be a good idea to try this before RMAing the card. Basically, if there is a driver issue at play, the replacement obviously will do the same thing. This cold potentially save you the headache. That being said, if you dread the reinstall process like I do, I would suggest taking your current drive out and replacing it with an old drive and using that to install to. I use Ghost myself, and keep an image of a clean Windows install just for things like this.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Jray
Anyone else have an opinion on something to try? I already got an RMA from newegg but I'd like to avoid the whole process if possible. I'm out of ideas but I'm hoping someone else has seen a problem like this before.

Thanks!

Try it on another monitor - or - try it on as many other monitors as you can.

Or, try another video card/PC on this monitor.

You should find whether or not it's the card if you can do any of these.


Also, did this 'ghosting' happen before you installed the drivers and rebooted, or only after?

 

[Jray]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024

Try it on another monitor - or - try it on as many other monitors as you can.

Or, try another video card/PC on this monitor.

You should find whether or not it's the card if you can do any of these.


Also, did this 'ghosting' happen before you installed the drivers and rebooted, or only after?

Good question. I don't recall actually. I think after the drivers... I'm going home now. I'll check it out and report back. Seems strange that it would be a driver issue but... stranger things have happened I guess.

I'm going to a LAN party tomorrow (thus the terrible timing) so I'll have a chance to connect it to other monitors if I don't figure it out before then. Good idea.

 

[wraith3k]

Are you using an A/B switch between the monitor and computer? Also if it's possible to remove the video cable from the monitor (some are not built-in), try using a different cable.

I had a similar problem once and the culprit was the switchbox I was using to extend the length of the video cable.

 

[Keysplayr]

Do what I said. I had the same exact issue.

 

[dripgoss]

Also, you might want to update your system and chipset drivers. This sounds a little goofy, but I rememebr on my old Ti4600, I had the same problem until I upped chipset drivers, mobo drivers and DX on an 845PE board...

 

[Jray]

Originally posted by: theslug
Are you using an A/B switch between the monitor and computer? Also if it's possible to remove the video cable from the monitor (some are not built-in), try using a different cable.

I had a similar problem once and the culprit was the switchbox I was using to extend the length of the video cable.

We have a winner! I was planning on trying it anyway... but I took my KVM switch out of the loop and it appears to have fixed the problem. I'm going to check it on another monitor tomorrow but the Linksys KVM switch seems to be the culprit. I think you were right on the money.

That's still strange because I had no problems with my 9500pro (in the same PC) using that switch or a Geforce 2 MX400 in a different PC.

Thanks for the input everyone.