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roundrobin

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Fixed my problems with crashing video
« on: March 18, 2015, 10:53:20 PM »
Hi friends,
I kept having video problems. When minimizing my FS session or switching to full 3D etc... my picture would go out of synch. Like the old deck of cards falling in the older versions of solitaire. Would lose most of my scenery, the airplane, sky would change colors etc.....Only a FS restart would fix it. I tried everything. Re-loaded tons of drivers. Different driver version. Flash MB BIOS.  I was nearly ready to buy a new Video card (my present is an ASUS NVIDIA GTX680).
Tonight, finally I found the problem. It was my main monitor. I switched over to my secondary monitor and the problem is gone. Odd, since they are both 24" Samsungs, but one of them is the old fashion kind of square sizing while the second one is the full wide angle. Swapped them around and Bob's my uncle :-)

The monitor giving me grief is Samsung model# SA450 Syncmaster.
Funny though, on my other system (yes I have 2. I Plan on leaving the kids no money) I have an older version of that monitor the SyncMaster T240 (same size and res) and it works fine.

Posting just in case someone runs into this.

Al