I have a dual LCD setup with a 19" LG Flatron (1400:1, 4ms, 1280x1024, 4:3 in landscape mode connected via DVI) and an older MAG Innovision 14" (unsure of specs, 1024x768 in portrait mode attached to the VGA port-no DVI present).
I recently upgraded to an Opteron 185 (2.6MHz, socket 939) and 2 Gig OCZ DDR400 2,3,2,6 RAM from an AMD 64 3700+ Venice and 1 Gig of Muskin DDR400 2,3,2,6 RAM. The upgrade required upgrading the BIOS of the motherboard, a Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9 mobo. The video card is a Gigabyte GV-RX60P128DE Radeon X600 Pro PCI Express 128MB DDR. I do not remember the artifacts before this upgrade. I also don't remember is it started immediately after the upgrade. On the main LG screen, I often see random white pixels on the desktop and interference on videos playing on the screen. On the MAG Innovision, it appears more like sploches of white on the background and in windows. I have installed the latest Catalyst drivers both from ATI and Gigabyte. Didn't seem to make any difference. I have also had some issues with the ATI drivers and Civilization IV where the drivers fail, leaving me with 800x600 screen that requires a reboot. This was happening before the upgrade and is even worse now. Before the upgrade I could play for awhile before it crashed. Now, I cannot even start the program without the system crashing. BTW, the program works fine on several other computers I have (with both ATI and nVidia video cards). Doing some testing, I loaded Ubuntu. It mirrored the two monitors with the same display and I noticed that the artifacts were in exactly the same spot on both monitors. The LG monitor is hooked to to a second computer via the VGA port. Switching to this port seems to eliminate any artifacts. So, does this sound like a driver issue, a card issue, or some other problem? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am leaning towards a re-install, but would like to eliminate this problem first, if possible. Thanks, Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
