Major troubles

[Jeff King]

I doubt you can recall, but we had video card issues a few months ago that
caused the monitor to have waves in the screen on WHITE screens, then the
monitor would completely shut off (yes, the LEDs shut off on the monitor)
and it would do that to every monitor we would try. Well, last night, I
went to get on the computer and guess what? The identical problem was back.
The only thing different this time is I haven't tried another monitor yet.
Now, you can't really tell me that I'm having the same problem again? Are
there incorrect Windows drivers? This video card is barely new and it's
doing the same exact thing as the old one. But here's something new to the
problem. At the SAME EXACT TIME as this problem occured, Windows said that
there was an error for the IP address and it didn't match the IP address
that was on the network. (This is a new one that I've never seen before.)
That is when I went to get on my Web Page Browser and when it came up with a
white screen before it loaded the page, that's when the waves appeared at
the bottom portion of my monitor. Even after the monitor was shut off, I
still heard balloon popups Is it possible that there is a virus on my
computer - causing this? (My Norton is up-to-date.) I just checked for
spyware a day before this issue showed up. Is my computer shot? Is it some
wacky thing affecting Windows users? (Though doubtfully.) Last question...
Is this video issue common with NVIDIA cards?
-Computer specs- (the computer is 2 1/2 years old)
-Asus A7V333 motherboard with latest final releaseBIOS 1017
-NVIDIA GeForce4 MX4000 128MB w/TV out (Cheap replacement for GeForce3 Ti200
128MB as I don't do much gaming)
-Creative Audigy 5.1 24-bit sound card
-400w PSU
-AMD Athlon XP 2400+ CPU @ 2GHz
-Kingston HyperX PC-3000 512MB of RAM
-Linksys Networking Card
-Linksys 4-port router (my computer is the second of three on the router and
we're using the router just for the Internet and we actually do not have the
computers networked)
-Lite On 16x DVD drive
-Memorex 52x32x52 CD RW drive
-Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM 2MB Cache IDE HD (C
-Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache IDE HD (D
-Panasonic 3 1/2" Floppy drive

Thanks for any help you can possibly come up with...

 

[Jeff King]

Apparently, the first computer on the router had the IP address problem as
well, but it did NOT have the video problems. The third computer did not
have this issue probably for this reason - it was shut off. And the IP
address error was about conflicting with another computer on the network,
not just the whole network...

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Jeff.

Did I just miss it in your post, or did you tell us everything BUT the make
and model of your MONITOR? CRT or LCD?

(I know nothing of networks and not much about monitors. But those who do
know might need to know what kind of monitor you are dealing with.)

RC

 

[Jeff King]

You're going to laugh, but it is a 19" CRT Proview monitor. The secondary
monitor is a 14" Dell monitor.

 

[CWatters]

You're going to laugh, but it is a 19" CRT Proview monitor. The secondary
monitor is a 14" Dell monitor.

I don't remember what happened first time around but...

So you've had this problem on 1 computer with 2 different monitors? or more
than 1 computer?

From the description it sounds like a problem with the video card. Most
modern monitors shut themselves off if the input signal goes out of spec.

 

[Jeff King]

2 different monitors with one computer...

I don't remember what happened first time around but...

So you've had this problem on 1 computer with 2 different monitors? or more
than 1 computer?

From the description it sounds like a problem with the video card. Most
modern monitors shut themselves off if the input signal goes out of spec.

 

[Malke]

2 different monitors with one computer...

Same problem with two different monitors and same computer indicates a
faulty video card. Swap it out for a known-working one.

Malke