grey lines on my EV700 Gateway 17" monitor

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From: Melinda on 01/30/2003
Help, I have a 3 yr old gateway Pentium III, which has been working fine up until 2 days ago. I turned on the monitor and have grey lines extending horizontally across the screen where there is any text. I have tried reloading the display adapter drivers, etc no luck. I plugged my monitor into my laptop and the lines are not there. When I go into display settings I can choose 16 or 256 colors, or 16bit true color or 32bit true color is this 'normal'? Could it be my video card? Is there a way I can tell for sure? What would be a good video card to purchase? THANKS!!

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From: Kendra on 03/13/2004
It's your graphics card.

I had an nvidia TNT2 and I had grey lines popping up all over my sheeot. I called Samsung, had them replace my monitor, fought with them, got broken monitors, different sized monitors, and finally got one that worked.

But the display was the same.

I took out the graphics card and replaced it with an old Voodoo3 card and it worked perfectly.

It's not your drivers, it's not your monitor, its your graphics card. Your graphics card is probably failing due to heat damage or just being old.

It happens, it happened to me.

Save yourself the trouble of calling the warranty on the monitor and just replace the graphics card. If it's an older computer, get a fairly simple graphics card. From experience, the ATI Radeon 9600 sucks ass. Keep it simple.

Thanks.

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From: NVIDIA? on 12/20/2003
Sounds like the video card.

See http://www.nocrash.com/ncbbs/msgs/157.shtml for more details.

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From: Conjuror on 12/07/2003
I am running Windows XP and just recently got this problem. I restored my computer to a fews days prior to today and the grey lines are still present. I'm more than sure its my video card, but just to be certain I'm going to test another montior.
Great posts they are all Very Helpful... ;)

-Conjuror

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From: Sean on 10/30/2003
I also have this same problem. IT is small faint gray lines, shows up BADLY on white text, goes from left to right. I have a feeling I got a virus in my computer, because I keep getting pop up adds with not even clicking anything. But Im also having this same problem. If there is some kind of virus that does it, and anyone knows, please tell me.

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From: Geoff on 05/12/2003
We had this exact same problem with the same system a while ago. Had the card replaced and it worked fine, but a matter of months later it's happened again. Make sure you replace the card with a newer version.

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From: Ryan on 04/26/2003
Guess what. I know what the problem is...if your monitor does not have the lines in the OSD or self test and the lines exist in BIOS or windows splash screen the memory on the video card is shot. At this point you need a new AGP card anyway because the AGP with the lines is obsolete.

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From: G. on 04/24/2003
Try taking a screenshot--if the gray lines show up there then it might indicate that the signal is coming out of the video chipset already fudged up. If you don't see any distortions in the screenshot then it could be due to interference or some other monitor-specific ailment.

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From: nate on 04/07/2003
im on my brothers computer right now and hes had the same problem for a while now. im pretty sure its the video card. what gateway p3 system do you have? my brothers is one of the itty bitty huge dictionary sized systems for college students, and it has an intel 82810e Graphics Controller, which is probably the problem.

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From: Ricardo on 04/05/2003
Hi
I suggest you run an self test for your monitor and also boot into the bios and see if the grey lines are still there.Since we have tried connecting the Laptop to the monitor and it works fine.I suggest we try and Update the vedio drivers.If you have a built in video card on the mother board then I suggest we purchase a new external Video card(AGP) card.

Thanks Regards
Ricardo

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From: Richard on 03/13/2003
I think that your having the same problem I am, but i dont think it is the monitior, My dad switched to a new monitior and it still has the same problem. We are also running a 3 year old gateway pentium 3

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From: FRED on 03/13/2003
IM HAVING THE SAME ISSUE HAVE U FOUND AN ANSWER? FREDKNAPPJR@HOTMAIL.COM

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