Bad monitor or bad card?

[Venadium]

I've had my ATI-built 9800 Pro for a few weeks now and I'm very happy with
it. The only problem I noticed was a vertical 'line' that travels from the
top of my screen to the bottom, over and over. I figured this was a problem
with my monitor, since I found it on the side of the street. Something odd
however was that I have the same line on my secondary monitor, which used to
be my primary until I found this one, only it travels from bottom to top.
Both monitors are CRT, and secondary is plugged into the DVI output.

Tonight, while trying to get dual-display working correctly in Linux, I
noticed something interesting. For some reason, the linux driver treats the
DVI as the primary adapter, and there is no way I know of to change it
(without modifying the driver source, I imagine). What's interesting is,
that under Linux my primary monitor now becomes secondary, and vice versa.
Now, under linux, the 'line' moves from the bottom up on the monitor I found
in the garbage, and from the top down on the old monitor, exactly the
opposite of how it happens in Windows.

Is there something wrong with my 9800 Pro, or is this somehow caused by each
monitor running at a different resolution / refresh rate?

 

[Venadium]

After some experimentation (which I suppose I should have done before
posting), it seems that the lines only occur if the primary monitor is set
at 1280x1024x60Hz (its highest possible setting).

 

[fook me]

so you found 2 monitors - one on the side of the street and one in the
garbage?

And your wondering why it has lines going up and down it?????

ROFLMAO

 

[iddqd]

Is there something wrong with my 9800 Pro, or is this somehow caused by each
monitor running at a different resolution / refresh rate?

It's not uncommon to see such a thing on older monitors - most likely
avoiding having them run the same refresh rate will circumvent the problem.

Never monitors should not have the problem due to the fact that for some
years there has been a focus on minimizing the radiation* emited by
monitors, not to avoid problems like the rolling lines but because there
are speculations that the magnetic fields and all may be bad to ones health.

Kind regards

Bruno


* Radiation in a wide sense - not nuclear stuff per se

 

[Venadium]

No. I found one on the side of the street, in a pile of other old computer
equipment that a school was getting rid of. It was larger than the 2
monitors I was currently using, so I brought it home and tested it out. Now
my secondary monitor is a 15" that came with an HP I bought a few years ago.

LOLOLOLOLOLOMGOMG!!!!1111one@

Die.