graphics or monitor issue??

[skier]

allright, here is the story, my computer(sig) ran fine until yesterday,then all of a sudden, i get a bsod, so i reboot(thinking nothing of it as usual) then i get a "frequency over range" screen on my monitor, then it turns black and i cant do anything until i reboot, then it happens again, and again and again, in the middle of whatever i am doing, stressful or not on the CPU, so i went online and saw other people had the issue and they changed their refresh rates and resolution, well i tried every refresh rate and resolution my monitor can use, and it still happens, and sometimes i get the error before it posts even, it has never done anything like this before and its doing it constantly now, i didnt change any display settings at all, it just started to do it, wtf is going on??

any help is extremely appeciated

[ibleet]

That error means you've either chosen a resolution or a refresh rate which exceeds your monitor's capabilties. Select a lower refresh rate, and/or set Refresh Force back to the defaults.

If that doesn't fix it, then try opening your case and cleaning inside, remove and reseat the video card (cleaning the contacts). If that fails, try another card if you have one around.

Also look in the Nvidia control panel and make sure that "Enable doublescan for lower resolution modes" isn't checked.

If all that fails, go into safe mode, remove video drivers, reboot and reinstall drivers in normal mode.

[dicecca112]

I would wager to guess it is either graphics card or bad drivers. ibleet's recommendations are right on the money, good job ibleet, quality post there

[skier]

i would assume its a bad card, because i have the newest stable drivers out for this card and have tried every setting available, and it just happened all of a sudden, mabie this will will make my mom let me buy that X1650 PRO ive been lookin at i will try my 32mb geforce 2 200 card and see if it does it(although it is a terrible card, and i dont have a surefire way to make it crash), would 3dmark or povray make it crash easier?

[ibleet]

You don't want to necessarily "make" it crash. The point is to make sure the video card is the problem, so just install the old card and run it normally for a few days. If it doesn't crash then you know its definitely your card.

[skier]

well, "make" is a strong word i guess, but it would do it no matter what i did, and when i ran 3dmark'03(it cant run '06 to begin with) it gave me the pretty "DPMS off mode" signal(what usually comes up when the computer turns off) and then the frequency out of range sign, so then after i forced turning it off(hold down the power button) i took it out and tried cleaning it, then put it back in, and it gave me the FOOR signal before the full boot, so i took it out and put the old, old crappy card in, it hasnt given that sign since(about 5 hrs) so im gonna go ahead and say the card is toast

- plus i am using a higher res and refresh rate(with the much much worse card(not even DX8 hardware support )

[ibleet]

I think I smell toast. Good luck on getting your X1650 PRO.