I'm having a weird problem with my computer. Every once in awhile (between every 30 minutes to 2 hours, roughly), my monitor flickers for a split second, but not like a degauss problem so much as a very thin line that appears in the middle of the screen for a split second, with a distinct "snik" sound. In an instant it's gone, but I notice it every so often. My monitor is a 5 year old ViewSonic 19" G790 that I've never had any problems with so far, and hasn't degraded in quality any since it was new. It also cost me a G-note Canadian when it was new (around $650 US). It does not hum or exhibit other signs of age that monitors do before they go to monitor heaven.
Now, I'm at school now, so I don't have time to check this out in detail right now; in the summer I'll give it the full problem solving treatment.
Anyway, I'm running a P4 1.8A @ 2.25 GHz (with 1.600 core voltage), PC 2100 crucial memory @ PC 2700 speed (166MHz DDR) with the fastest settings (2-2-2-5-7) and no voltage increases on the memory. I'm also running a GeForce 3 Ti200 (1 month old) @ near GF3 Ti500 levels: 220 MHz core, 500MHz memory. It can do 235 MHz core 520 MHz memory stably, but I like to back it off from the maximum to prolong the life of the card. Room temperature is pretty cool and I have pretty good cooling in the case with a nice uni-directional flow from intake to exhaust.
PCI overclock should not be a problem, it's running @ 125 MHz FSB which actually sets the PCI speed to 32 MHz on this motherboard. However I'm using Turbo 1 which I've heard sets the PCI speed to around 37 MHz; every component in my machine did 37.5 MHz in my CUSL2 so I'm ruling it out as a problem.
Now, does this seem like a problem caused by:
a) The memory overclock
b) The CPU overclock
c) The Video overclock
d) The Monitor
e) I'm crazy and I hallucinated the whole thing
I'm leaning on it being a problem with the monitor, as it's starting to get on in years, as well as the fact that it gets pretty hot, and I run it on for 5+ hours per day. However I generally don't notice any increase/decrease in this very small flicker over time.
Opinions?
Now, I'm at school now, so I don't have time to check this out in detail right now; in the summer I'll give it the full problem solving treatment.
Anyway, I'm running a P4 1.8A @ 2.25 GHz (with 1.600 core voltage), PC 2100 crucial memory @ PC 2700 speed (166MHz DDR) with the fastest settings (2-2-2-5-7) and no voltage increases on the memory. I'm also running a GeForce 3 Ti200 (1 month old) @ near GF3 Ti500 levels: 220 MHz core, 500MHz memory. It can do 235 MHz core 520 MHz memory stably, but I like to back it off from the maximum to prolong the life of the card. Room temperature is pretty cool and I have pretty good cooling in the case with a nice uni-directional flow from intake to exhaust.
PCI overclock should not be a problem, it's running @ 125 MHz FSB which actually sets the PCI speed to 32 MHz on this motherboard. However I'm using Turbo 1 which I've heard sets the PCI speed to around 37 MHz; every component in my machine did 37.5 MHz in my CUSL2 so I'm ruling it out as a problem.
Now, does this seem like a problem caused by:
a) The memory overclock
b) The CPU overclock
c) The Video overclock
d) The Monitor
e) I'm crazy and I hallucinated the whole thing
I'm leaning on it being a problem with the monitor, as it's starting to get on in years, as well as the fact that it gets pretty hot, and I run it on for 5+ hours per day. However I generally don't notice any increase/decrease in this very small flicker over time.
Opinions?
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