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October 25th, 2004 16:00
X800 Display problems
Sorry this is kinda long for a first post.
I just got an 8400 with the X800SE over the weekend, and then spent a part of the weekend reading these forums, sadly.
When I first booted up, on the dark DELL background, things looked fine. However, the text was a bit grainy. I bumped the resolution to 1280x1024 and 32bit. Still grainy. Changed from a dark background to a light one and I am getting shadowing on the images. There are black (or dark pixels) instead of shadows. So I uninstalled the Dell drivers, and loaded the ATI 4.10 Catalyst drivers. Same issues. Boot to safe mode, uninstall all those drivers and go back to the disc for the Dell drivers. Still no better quality. Uninstall those drivers again and got the Omega drivers. SUCCESS! Beautiful image quality. Games load with no issues, videos aren’t grainy. All my problems are solved.. or so I thought.
This morning, I restarted my machine and it is back to grainy. The text is pixilated. Backgrounds are showing artifacts. NOTHING changed from last night at 1AM when it was working fine to 10AM when I powered it on! I took a screenshot, but it displays fine on my laptop (emailed it to myself). I know its not the monitor because it looks fine with the old system (geforce 2 looks better than my X800 and it also displays my laptop fine).
Anyone have any suggestions?
System as follows
Dell 8400
P4 3Ghz
X800SE card (ARGH!!!)
512MB Ram
250GB HD
DVD-ROM
16x DVD Burner
XP SP2 (could that be a problem??)
- Cliff Notes
Got 8400 with X800SE. Old Geforce 2 looks better. Artifacts and shadowing. Problems with games. Updates to Omega drivers loks great untill next day. ARGH!
Brian
Message Edited by SprungMonkey on 10-25-2004 12:12 PM
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Posted October 25th, 2004 19:00
Maybe you just got a bad card.I also have an 8400 with the x800 se and it performs very well.I run Far Cry and Doom3 with no problems at all and I have settings on very high.I hope you get your problem resolved.By the way I am using the 4.10 drivers.154
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Posted October 25th, 2004 19:00
I have a 21" Nokia 445x-Pro monitor. (CRT) I think i can eliminate the monitor, because it runs fine on the other system with A Geforce 2 GTS card.I guess Im leaning towards bad card now.. Any other ideas?Message Edited by SprungMonkey on 10-25-2004 03:25 PM
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Posted October 25th, 2004 20:00
Maybe you need specific drivers for the monitor since it didn't ship with your new system? Does XP recognize the exact monitor or is just defaulting to some generic model?154
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Posted October 25th, 2004 21:00
XP sees it, and the ATI drivers see it when I go into properties it IS listed. Im just runing out of ideas. I havent had a chance to call suport yes, as I am at work, but will try them tonite.BD154
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Posted October 26th, 2004 04:00
Well, 2 hours and 3 technicians later, a technician is coming out to my house to replace the card. Dont know why they couldnt ship it to me, but thats OK. Planning on calling Customer Care tomorrow to see if I can just upgrade for $X dollars and be done with it.
YAY! Problems WILL be fixed!
BD
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Posted October 28th, 2004 16:00
SprungMonkey,
In the future, if you want just the part and not the onsite technician, tell Dell you want a P.O.S. (parts only service) instead of ND (next day service).
DELL-Chris M (old account)
#IWork4Dell
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Posted October 28th, 2004 21:00
Update! Tech showed up this morning, took one look at the display and agreed somethign was wrong. He snapped open teh case, pulled the old one out and popped in teh new one.WHAT A DIFFERENCE!! The display was 3x BRIGHTER! The artifacting was GONE! AWESOME!BDMessage Edited by SprungMonkey on 10-29-2004 12:20 PM
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Posted October 25th, 2004 18:00