Monitor has green static

Aerozord · 10-07-2011, 12:37 PM

Dont like tossing up multiple tech support threads in a row, but it is completely unrelated. I'm getting this green fuzz on my screen, most noticeable in videos and games, but here and there I notice it on webpages too. No clue what started it. Hope my monitor isn't going or something.

mauve · 10-07-2011, 02:19 PM

Mine started doing something similar earlier this year. When I played video games it would randomly freeze and the screen would be covered in lines of lime-green static. Turns out the video card was shot. Got a new one put in and it solved the problem completely.

rpgdemon · 10-07-2011, 02:19 PM

I'd hope your monitor is going, and it's not your video card. Ideally, it's the cable.

Test it out with a different computer. Then different cable/same computer if you can.

Nikose Tyris · 10-07-2011, 02:26 PM

Check your cable connections. If you are using the Blue VGA style cables, you are likely suffering from cable issues, not hardware.

Aerozord · 10-07-2011, 02:56 PM

on the video card possibility, I use the one integrated into the motherboard, can only the graphics output become shot? Cause everything else works fine

Grandmaster_Skweeb · 10-07-2011, 04:03 PM

Basic troubleshooterin:

Swap the cable. If artifacts persist see next
Swap the monitor (if possible). Test with both cables.
Goes without saying: but check drivers, update as necessary
If cables and monitors change nothing then consider putting in a new gpu.
Check for loose internal connections. Unplug and firmly reseat connection (practice proper grounding procedures)

Nikose Tyris · 10-07-2011, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

Check your cable connections. If you are using the Blue VGA style cables, you are likely suffering from cable issues, not hardware.

^

Aerozord · 10-08-2011, 12:01 PM

actually that seems to have fixed it. Just disconnected the cable, hit it with some compressed air for good measure, and its working fine now. I'm so used to catastrophic failure I would have overlooked something so minor

10-07-2011, 12:37 PM	#1
Aerozord So we are clear Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Former murder capital of the world Posts: 13,824	Monitor has green static Dont like tossing up multiple tech support threads in a row, but it is completely unrelated. I'm getting this green fuzz on my screen, most noticeable in videos and games, but here and there I notice it on webpages too. No clue what started it. Hope my monitor isn't going or something. __________________ "don't hate me for being a heterosexual white guy disparaging slacktivism, hate me for all those murders I've done."

10-07-2011, 02:19 PM	#2
mauve So Dreamy Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Someplace magical Posts: 6,863	Mine started doing something similar earlier this year. When I played video games it would randomly freeze and the screen would be covered in lines of lime-green static. Turns out the video card was shot. Got a new one put in and it solved the problem completely. __________________ Yoo Hoo!

10-07-2011, 02:19 PM	#3
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	I'd hope your monitor is going, and it's not your video card. Ideally, it's the cable. Test it out with a different computer. Then different cable/same computer if you can. __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.

10-07-2011, 02:56 PM	#5
Aerozord So we are clear Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Former murder capital of the world Posts: 13,824	on the video card possibility, I use the one integrated into the motherboard, can only the graphics output become shot? Cause everything else works fine __________________ "don't hate me for being a heterosexual white guy disparaging slacktivism, hate me for all those murders I've done."

10-07-2011, 04:03 PM	#6
Grandmaster_Skweeb Doesn't care anymore Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,429	Basic troubleshooterin: Swap the cable. If artifacts persist see next Swap the monitor (if possible). Test with both cables. Goes without saying: but check drivers, update as necessary If cables and monitors change nothing then consider putting in a new gpu. Check for loose internal connections. Unplug and firmly reseat connection (practice proper grounding procedures)

10-08-2011, 12:01 PM	#8
Aerozord So we are clear Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Former murder capital of the world Posts: 13,824	actually that seems to have fixed it. Just disconnected the cable, hit it with some compressed air for good measure, and its working fine now. I'm so used to catastrophic failure I would have overlooked something so minor __________________ "don't hate me for being a heterosexual white guy disparaging slacktivism, hate me for all those murders I've done."