I could run in Windows 7 at the highest resolution (1600 x 1200) without the noise.īut doing this was not a workable option, because what would be the point of having upgraded to the 9800 card if I wasn't going to use it. The only thing that solved the issue for Windows 7 was removing the 9800 card and re-installing the old 6800. I cannot avoid using the new driver anymore, unless I want to stick with XP, but that's not what I want to do. When Win 7 installed, it would not use the older Nvidia driver, so it installed the latest one. I created a dual boot so I can always go back to XP as needed. But this morning I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on the same machine. Upgrading the driver really had no effect on any of my games anyway, so upgrading the driver was really just a geek kind of thing that I like to do. I got tired of trying to fix the issue, so I rolled back the driver to the older one.īut every time I found a new driver on Nvidia's web site, I would try it, in hopes that the issue might be fixed. When I reduced the resolution to 1200 x 1024, or 1024 x 768 the noise was not present. The noise would become more intense as the monitor warmed up, but would reach a point where it would not get any worse, but the monitor would flicker occasionally, as though it were receiving a signal out of its range. When I installed the later driver, I started to see video noise lines running up and down both sides of the screen when in the max resolution of 1600 x 1200 60HZ. It worked great with the drivers included on the install CD.

I had been running a BFG 6800 card with no problems at all, but wanted something faster on this aging system Asus P5AD2-E Premium, and got a good deal on the 9800. For several months, I have been trying to diagnose a problem that occurs on my Viewsonic VX2000 monitor connected to a BFG 9800 GTX+.

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