Monitor fried my 9700??
Last night both my monitor (Fujtisu-Siemens 19P4, almost brand new) and my HIS 9700 (3.9 Drivers) died.
Toast by the looks of things.
1) Since I brought the monitor about 6 weeks ago it has occasionally made a faint "Zzzick" sound. Otherwise fine. No flickering or otherwise.
I had my suspicions about the monitor then. My last one died after this sound became more and more frequent.
All was running fine when windows XP spontaneously rebooted. Now I have deactivated the automatic reboot function, so this shouldnt normally happen. Upon rebooting windows reported a serious hardware fault and pointed at an ATI driver. The resolution had been reset to 640x480.
Recently I have also had to reinstall the monitor drivers after windows XP complained about driver issues with the 19P4 drivers.
I found that most unusual.
Once I tried to reset the resolution to 1024*768 the screen went black and the monitor shut down.
Not even the green power LED lights up anymore.
When I switch the monitor on and listen carefully I can hear a faint "zick zick zick" sound from inside the monitor. Nothing else.
2) Unplugged the 19P4 monitor and rebooted, activating the second monitor. Tried to set resolution to 1024*768. Black screen.
Repeated this a couple of times and then rebooted in save mode.
The image was distorted, blocky in 256 colours with na effect like several images overlayed.
Have had a similar problem before with my previous ATI 9700.
This is a sign that my graphics card is defect.
Now running old monitor and GeForce2 with no problems.
A technician at Siemens said the problem with the monitor could come from the PSU in the monitor.
Is it possible that my monitor died and somehow managed to fry my video card????
Perhaps because something in the monitor shorted out??
Thoughts....
Toast by the looks of things.
1) Since I brought the monitor about 6 weeks ago it has occasionally made a faint "Zzzick" sound. Otherwise fine. No flickering or otherwise.
I had my suspicions about the monitor then. My last one died after this sound became more and more frequent.
All was running fine when windows XP spontaneously rebooted. Now I have deactivated the automatic reboot function, so this shouldnt normally happen. Upon rebooting windows reported a serious hardware fault and pointed at an ATI driver. The resolution had been reset to 640x480.
Recently I have also had to reinstall the monitor drivers after windows XP complained about driver issues with the 19P4 drivers.
I found that most unusual.
Once I tried to reset the resolution to 1024*768 the screen went black and the monitor shut down.
Not even the green power LED lights up anymore.
When I switch the monitor on and listen carefully I can hear a faint "zick zick zick" sound from inside the monitor. Nothing else.
2) Unplugged the 19P4 monitor and rebooted, activating the second monitor. Tried to set resolution to 1024*768. Black screen.
Repeated this a couple of times and then rebooted in save mode.
The image was distorted, blocky in 256 colours with na effect like several images overlayed.
Have had a similar problem before with my previous ATI 9700.
This is a sign that my graphics card is defect.
Now running old monitor and GeForce2 with no problems.
A technician at Siemens said the problem with the monitor could come from the PSU in the monitor.
Is it possible that my monitor died and somehow managed to fry my video card????
Perhaps because something in the monitor shorted out??
Thoughts....
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Hopefully you can RMA the video card and the monitor. Sux when you lose hardware like that, i feel your pain.
Hope all works out.
I thought that might be the case... My graphics card smells slightly roasted too. : ((
Annoying.
I bought a laptop to make me feel better.
Now I have to transfer all my software and files across to it, so that will keep me busy...