voodoo 3 newest drivers make my monitor wig out......

[lepper boy]

Has this happened to anyone else?? I thought my monitor was g oing bad. so just for the heck of it I reinstalled an older version of the vd3 drivers. and it went away. what it did was shake the hole screen vibrating back and forth..... anyone ever notice this before??

 

[oldfart]

Hmm. Funny that you mention that. Please tell more. I Have one in my kids PC (V3 3K PCI) that will do it once in awhile. 800 x 600 shakes like mad, then will stop. 640 x 480 is cool. Its a crappy old MAG 15". I thought the monitor was on the way out. My other kids PC has a V3 2K PCI and a NEC 15". It doesn't do it. I have a bunch of friends that have V3's running newest drivers, none of them have mentioned it (I'm tech support for them so I would have heard about it!). Must be certain combination that causes it.

 

[lepper boy]

Well, I am pretty sure it is the drivers I am using, if I install old drivers it goes away. just started to do this, I have been using the new drivers for about 3 weeks..... and this is the first I noticed.... but this is also about the first time I have sat and pl ayed games all day. (wife is gone)

my sys is.

cel. 566 @ 566 makingsure its not the oced....
192 pc-100
vd3 3000
newest drivers.
quantum fireball 30 gig.
abit bh6
cheapo modem and sound card.
and I just plugged in a new side winder 2..... um. maybe I will unhook that and see if that does it..... since I just put it in about the same time this started happening.....

 

[Slapstick]

I noticed it too, I had to up the refresh rate to 85 MHz to get it to stop . I thought maybe it was the vid card going bad since it had been OC?ed since I got it so I picked up a V5500, same thing when the refresh rate is under 85 MHz. I?m using a Viewsonic PF790and currently running 1280x1024 @ 85Mhz and 16 bit color. I figured is must be something with the Voodoo cards and AG based monitors

BWT I lent the V3 to a friend that has an old Mag 15" monitor on his kids PC and it?s fine.

 

[lepper boy]

currently it is not shaking...... I will have to try to up the refrest rate, but I'm not sure if this monitor can handle that high of a refresh rate... I'm running at 1021x768 on a sylvaniz F72...... I'll give it a whirl..... when it happens again though........ thanks!

 

[Aos]

I've seen similar things happen on a Dell PC at work. You might want to make sure that you have a monitor selected under your display properties. Oftimes, if it says "unknown" you can run into some weird problems.

Display properties --> Advanced--> Monitor Tab

 

[oldfart]

This is strange. I have 2 PC's with V3's in them (my kids PC's). One is a V3 2K on a NEC monitor, the other a V3 3K on a Mag monitor. Both are shadow mask monitors, both are PCI cards. One does it, the other doesn't. I have the proper monitor model selected on both. Later, I'm going to switch monitors and see if it follows.

 

[lepper boy]

the monitor is selected correctly for my computer. Re-installed using older vd3 drivers. So far no shakes.... let ya know if it keeps up with the good performance.

 

[oldfart]

In my case it's the monitor. That old POS MAG gave it up. It wont work on either of the PCs at all. The display may come on for a split second, then turns to a vertical line and is gone. The NEC works fine on either PC. Oh well, off to find a new monitor.

 

[lepper boy]

in my case I believe it was the vd3 drivers..... haven't had it happen since.......