OT: Flickering blue pixels

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Hi all,

 

Im getting random flickering blue pixels on my monitor in video or gaming. They dont always appear and when they do - they dont always appear in the same place.

They are however always blue. If I have a desktop picture it seems that areas where there is some colour contrast (e.g yellow fish in blue sea background) are more susceptible to having static blue pixels there.

 

The strange thing is that if i move....say a folder icon on top the pixels turn to the normal colour....when i move the folder or anything else away that area still has the blue pixels where they shouldnt be.

 

Furthermore if i have a completely black or white desktop i have no dead or stuck pixels.....its all perfect.

 

The problem is worse with video or gaming.....anything blue in colour will have the flickering pixels in it.

 

Any ideas?? Is this a graphics card problem or a monitor one??

 

I have a 30" monitor with 8800GTX and windows vista.

 

Thanks in advance

[Kuky]

I think you are getting typical video artifacts... probably overheating or faulty memory on the video card... are you overclocking it by any chance?

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I think you are getting typical video artifacts... probably overheating or faulty memory on the video card... are you overclocking it by any chance?

 

 

No....standard....like this from day one

[Boberro]

Maybe try check cabel via Monitor -> GPU and same GPU on motherboard. Also check this graphic card on friendly PC, if GPU is OK at friendly's computer should work OK.

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Maybe try check cabel via Monitor -> GPU and same GPU on motherboard. Also check this graphic card on friendly PC, if GPU is OK at friendly's computer should work OK.

 

 

Dont have any other compatible computers to check videocard and monitor.

 

 

Are there any progrmans to test videocard memory??

[Kuky]

I don't think there is some software that can test memory like that... hey if you got the video card recently and you've never oveclocked it I think you should return it. Other than that easiest thing would be to test the video card in some other PC but if you can't do that I don't know what other options you have other then to return the card.

 

Do you have an old monitor you could try as well... I'm thinking it might possiblt be the monitor as well, altough I think it's not very likely.