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February 5th, 2007 01:00

Video Problems

This morning my computer displayed the following problems:
Screen areas that should be white are now gray.  Streaky hortizontal darker gray areas than others and when cursor is dragged up and down the screen a darker gray area follows along with it.  Colors are showing up almost neon-like.  I have a Samsung 204B LCD moinitor which I have hooked up to another computer and is working properly.  Here are the specs of my Dimension 8100:
 
1 00EDU PROCESSOR, 80528, 1.3GHZ, 0K, 400FSB, SOCKET W
1 25REH PRINTED WIRING ASSY, PLANAR (MOTHERBOARD), 8100, NETWORK INTERFACE CARD/CONTROLLERS, 4 RIMM, DIMENSION
1 5828D ASSEMBLY, CABLE, ATA66, 2DROP, KLINGER
1 9019C ASSEMBLY, CABLE, DORADO/ATHENS/TUALATIN/ALMODOR, 34P, FLOPPY DRIVE, 1DROP, HUNNICUT/MEDIUM DESKTOP
1 9809T ASSEMBLY, CABLE, 40P, IDE (INTEGRATED DRIVE ELECTRONICS), 2DROP, LS120 FLOPPY DRIVE
1 25PGG KEYBOARD, 104, 6P, UNITED STATES, NMB, MIDNIGHT GRAY
1 47FEM MOUSE, PERSONAL SYSTEM 2, 6P, 2BTN, WHEEL, MICROSOFT, MIDNIGHT GRAY
2 0264P RAMBUS INLINE MEMORY MODULE, 64, 300M, 32X16, 4C 2 9578D CARD (CIRCUIT), MEMORY BOARD, MEMORY, PRINTED WIRING BOARD, CONTINUITY, RAMBUS
1 2D350 DIGITAL VIDEO DISK DRIVE, 680M, 16X, I, INTERNAL, NEC CORPORATION, REVISION, MIDNIGHT GRAY
1 20CKU KIT, SPEAKER, 120V, DELL MIDNIGHT GRAY, HK695
1 0C215 KIT, MODEM, V90, DATA FAX VOICE MODEMS, TITAN, DIMENSION, DELL AMERICAS ORGANIZATION
1 5740C CABLE, AUXILIARY, INTERNAL, MODEM, 4C 1 969NU MODEM, V.90, INTERNAL, DATA/FAX/VOICE, ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, NORTH AMERICA, TITAN
1 181UR CARD (CIRCUIT), MULTI-MEDIA, AUDIO, CRTV-4780, FRONT AUDIO JACK 1 57589 CABLE, AUDIO, MOLEX TO MOLEX
1 15UMJ CARD (CIRCUIT), GRAPHICS, VIDEO, 32M, MRMGA2, DIMENSION
1 53EDU HARD DRIVE, 40G, I, 3.5" FORM FACTOR, 1N, 7.2K, 20G/P, MAXTOR
1 99PTG FLOPPY DRIVE, 1.44M, 3.5" FORM FACTOR, NO BEZEL, SONY, F/EJ3, MIDNIGHT GRAY
1 10RDC KIT, SOFTWARE, WKS-STE2K1, 5.25" FORM FACTOR, ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MFGR., ENGLAND/ENGLISH
 
Can anyone give me advise as to what is wrong?  Does it look like I need a new video board?  Thanks much for all your help.

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February 8th, 2007 02:00

I would say yes given you've eliminated the monitor as a possible problem plus the other symptons you've described.
 
Don't spend a lot on the Dimension 8100.
 
This card should do fine:
 
 
Good Luck
Dale
 
 

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February 8th, 2007 02:00

Thanks very much for your advice, Dale.
:smileyhappy:

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February 8th, 2007 02:00

You're welcome.  I meant to ask what video card are you using now.  Anyway you want to use AGP video cards.  No pci or pci-e x16 or pci-e x1 video cards.
 
Good Luck
Dale
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