[dba-Tech] PC problem

That's the thing... I've got plenty of AGP cards, but this is the only PCI-E
system in the house... Got none at work that I can "borrow" either :-(

No, not exactly how I'd pictured it :-)


Jon 

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
Sent: 19 March 2007 21:05
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] PC problem

Yank one out of a different system, you do have a couple other systems
laying about don't you?   ;-)   Just the way you wanted to spend your
time off work I bet too.

GK

On 3/19/07, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:
> It's a dual head card, nVidia GeForce 6800 GT, running a Dell 19" TFT 
> and a WesEri 19" TFT (no, I never heard of them either, but they were
cheap!).
> I've checked both connectors, and both DVI-to-Analogue adaptors. Guess 
> the only thing left is to reseat the card, or find another one.
>
> Thanks Gary :-)
>
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: 19 March 2007 18:53
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] PC problem
>
> Got the monitor connection cable screwed in tight?  Maybe unplug it 
> and reseat it to make sure the connection is good and solid. I always 
> screw them in but I know a lot of people don't. Might also be worth 
> pulling the video card and reseating it. Maybe pushing the chips in on 
> the card itself. I'm thinking it's the cable though.....do both 
> monitors hook into the same video connection with a splitter? or is 
> one on VGA and another on DVI? Or seperate video cards?  If they are 
> the same connection than it must be the cable. If seperate then the 
> video card itself may be fried. Do you have a different video card you
could swap in temporarlily?
>
> Good luck
>
> GK
>
> On 3/19/07, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I've got a "slight" problem with my PC... yesterday, I was playing 
> > Company of Heroes, and just as I was about to storm the German 
> > headquarters, my screen turned several shades of pink, with yellow 
> > lines radiating out from my mouse cursor... this carried of for 
> > around 30 seconds, before the PC restarted itself.
> >
> > When it restarted, it had lots of green wavy lines on the screen 
> > (both of them), around half an inch long, in sets of four, one pair 
> > slightly offset above and to the right of the other. Since then, I 
> > have downloaded new drivers for the graphics card, run 5 
> > anti-spyware programs, 3 anti-virus programs, Trojan Hunter, run 
> > disk clean, defrag, even done a chkdsk from the Windows CD. After 
> > none of those
> worked, I did a repair install of windows.
> > That's not worked either, and I've spent the rest of the afternoon 
> > putting all the windows updates back onto the PC.
> >
> > I've even tried using the older drivers that I had installed before 
> > downloading the new ones.
> >
> > One thing it is doing now that it wasn't before, every time I try 
> > and resize an internet explorer window, or even close it, is to blue 
> > screen and tell me that there is a problem with nv4_disp.dll, so I 
> > googled it, and downloaded a replacement one from a trustworthy 
> > looking website (www.dll-guide.com), but it's made no difference.
> >
> > I think I know the answer to this, but I'm hoping to try and get 
> > away with not having to buy any new hardware... does anyone have any
ideas?
> >
> >
> > Jon
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