nVidia 8600GT GPU or Viewsonic causing issues.

[rivbyte]

MSI MS7345 Platinum MoBo
DirectX 11
Intel Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz
8GB PC6400 DDR2 RAM
nVidia GeForce 8600GT / Viewsonic VX2035 LCD Wide

Hi,

December of 2007, I purchased a GeForce nVidia 8600GT / PCI-E / 513MB / DDR2 / 128 BIT GPU.

In March 2007, I purchased a new Viewsonic Vx2035wm LCD 20" Widescreen Monitor.
Are there any signs I may see before either of these two things go out?

I noticed a changing of colors, starting with the boot up language on the screen that is ordinarily white, but once or twice tonight when booting up, the letters and numbers seem to be switching from white to a light pink. I also see color changes on the desktop, and even now, while I'm typing this out in Word, the blank white area on the page seems to be fading in and out.

I just re-installed Windows 7 Pro, and installed the most recent drivers for both these devices. Is there any way to pin point which of these two devices could be going out?

Are there any other tests on these devices to see what going on? I was going to upgrade my GPU when I upgrade my MSI P35 Platinum MoBo with a newer board with DDR3, more memory, and a faster Intel i5, or i7, I'm just not ready to do that right now, if this is the GPU. I think this Mobo had integrated graphics onboard, in case it is the GPU.

Thank you!

 

[KompuKare]

While a bad monitor or bad monitor cable can only really be ruled out by trying your setup with another monitor, I would lean towards the graphic card. But having said that on a VGA analog cable, white can appear pink if there's a bad connection on green (white = 100% of RGB, while pale pink would be 100% of only R&B).

8800GT / 8600GT / 8400GT and their mobile equivalents were all part of the infamous Nvidia bumb defects. At this stage an 8600GT is a pretty slow card so your best option would be to just get a new card. If you are not gaming even something like an HD5450 would do (or the HD6450 which is around the same speed as the 8600GT).

 

[KingFatty]

The external video cable between the monitor and computer may have wiggled itself loose a bit. Try pushing it back in and snugging down the screws on both the monitor and the computer, hopefully it's an easy fix? Also see if the video card itself is loose, or something else amiss.

 

[rivbyte]

Ok, Thanks.
I called Viewsonic and he had me to change the screen res, from 1280x800 to 1280x1024, and change the refresh rate from 75 to 60 Hz. Went into screen main men and change back to factory settings and refreshed monitor.

The color is not spotty but uniform. I noticed again today the bootup sequence language on the screen was a light pink then changed to white, I can also see it while writing this message against the white background.

Viewsonic could not tell me what causing it, only to do what you said, and that it to replace video cable or check this monitor on another computer, which so happens, that I have my niece's HP, that she wanted me to some maintenance on it, since it's been sitting around for two years.

I'll see about the loose cabling and loose card on the Mobo......I just removed two SATA hard drives to reformat my main boot drive, so I might have loosed up the card. I'll check and get back.

I have to go into video card settings...but what am I looking for to tweek?

Thanks! I hope it's only a loose cable or card. If neither, do video cables actually go out?