Monitor Flickers

[Valjean]

I have a Radeon 9600 XT and the Catalyst 5.7 driver package installed. The
monitor is the Hitachi SuperScan Elite 751. The flicker is reduced but not
eliminated at higher refresh rates.

 

[patrickp]

I have a Radeon 9600 XT and the Catalyst 5.7 driver package installed. The
monitor is the Hitachi SuperScan Elite 751. The flicker is reduced but not
eliminated at higher refresh rates.

Well, that would figure, Valjean. What refresh rates are you using?

Patrick

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[Valjean]

100 Mhz...

Well, that would figure, Valjean. What refresh rates are you using?

Patrick

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[Mike]

that shouldn't flicker, have you checked your monitor's reporyed refresh
rate to verfiy the drivers? And does it flicker only in games or in non-3d
apps to?

Mike

 

[Bioboffin]

100 Mhz...

Just a thought - may not be relevant - make sure you have no 'fat' mains
plugs close to the monitor (i.e. about half a metre). They can cause a
'wavering' effect.

John.

 

[patrickp]

that shouldn't flicker, have you checked your monitor's reporyed refresh
rate to verfiy the drivers? And does it flicker only in games or in non-3d
apps to?

Mike

As Mike says, 100Hz - not MHz! ;-) - certainly shouldn't flicker. How
are you determining what your refresh rate is?
What driver are you using for your monitor, Valjean? Do you have a
monitor-specific driver running or do you have it as a Plug'n'Pray
monitor? Oddly enough, in W2K (and, I think, XP) you will often get
better results running a monitor as a Plug'n'Pray one and setting 'Use
DDC information' in the monitor properties; this forces your system to
query the monitor itself as to its properties. W2K (and, I think, XP)
tend to interpret the properties in a monitor-specific driver very
conservatively, and you can wind up with a worse display than with the
Plug'n'Pray driver.

Patrick

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[Pluvious]

|Valjean wrote:
|> 100 Mhz...
|>
|> |>> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:07:28 -0400, "Valjean"
|>>
|>>> I have a Radeon 9600 XT and the Catalyst 5.7 driver package
|>>> installed. The monitor is the Hitachi SuperScan Elite 751. The
|>>> flicker is reduced but not eliminated at higher refresh rates.
|>>>
|>>
|>> Well, that would figure, Valjean. What refresh rates are you using?
|>>
|>> Patrick
|>>
|>> <[email protected]> - take five to email me...
|
|Just a thought - may not be relevant - make sure you have no 'fat' mains
|plugs close to the monitor (i.e. about half a metre). They can cause a
|'wavering' effect.
|
|John.
|

A table fan on the same power outlet will cause this as well. .

If the monitor is actually 'flickering' as in the whole screen is shacking..
then the monitor is dieing. It happened to me with my NEC 19". They are
notorious for loosing vertical hold and will 'flip down' about 1/2 inch and
'flicker'. IF that's what you meant.

Pluvious

 

[digisol]

Cheaper brand 9600's are garbage, drop it to 800 X 600 @ 85 Hz and se
if it works

As stated there are several rails coming off a power supply, keep on
for fans only, they can cause interference as will a speaker to
close to the monitor

Some / many 9600 Pro cards wear an XT chip but are down clocked, thi
can cause all sorts of dramas, especially with a Megaspeed bran
card, check in your video hardware properties what GPU it's wearing

Buy Genuine ATI and enjoy, or go to a Nvidia card, they seem to hav
less dramas, the 6600GT does the job, sure there are faster but it'
not needed

PS; of course if you have done nothing new or different to the bo
there is a chance the monitor is about to die, these days they las
just over the warranty and die, such is life