Video Problems

[Railven]

Well I'm having some trouble with my Video card (Ati Radeon 9700). You see when I turn on my computer I noticed that the boot sequence images are a little messed up. Not you know, good looking. Once I get into windows and I try to watch a DVD or use my TV Tuner it looks garbled up. I know its not drivers or my TV Tuner anymore, its the video card. Sometimes if I reboot windows I notice my boot seqeunce images all look fine and once I get into windows the DVDs and TV Tuner work fine again.

 

My motherboard has 4x AGP. Has anyone ever known for a AGP slot to just go wrong? I do know when I rebuilt my computer something went wrong and the CMOS basically died and I had to reconfigure it, ever since the video card hasn't worked fine. In my case my wiring, I have 1 one power cable and one audio cable running under the motherboard (where the motherboard is mounted) so can that cause trouble? I'm probably going to rip my computer apart again and just see if I can fix the problem, but any advice would be great.

 

RAILVEN

[GolDfiNger]

well i would swap your vid card with a known 100% working one, and if the problem still persits, i would have to say your mobo, and maybee your monitor but thats a long shot. if it does go away then you vid card obviously.

 

i dont think the cable going behind the mobo will mess anything up, they should be fine, just make sure no metal is showing or touchign the back fo the board, which i dont see why there should be

[Railven]

Hey man that sounds like a good idea and since my girlfriend just got her tax return I'm a go buy a new Radeon...course if it is my vid card guess I can take it back (ol vid card) and get my loot back. SWEEET! If its not the vid card I guess the new mobo I'm getting next week should fix it.

 

Thanks

RAILVEN