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Possible Vid Card issue by YourNeibour on 10-02-2006 at 02:46 PM
Hi,
I turned on my machine last night and all I saw was green lines accross the screen, I jiggled the cables and the picture went black, once I hit reboot everything was fine. This happened twice. Would this be a video card issue? Right now I have a Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro AGP
Thanks in advance
RE: Possible Vid Card issue by Ezra on 10-02-2006 at 03:05 PM
Could be the videocard, but also your monitor, try to use another monitor and see if the same thing happens, also try this monitor on another videocard see if it still happens then.
Could also be the cable btw, try some different setups and try to figure out what the faulty component is and replace it 
RE: Possible Vid Card issue by YourNeibour on 10-02-2006 at 07:05 PM
it doesn't happen all the time just 3 times the past month
RE: Possible Vid Card issue by Voldemort on 10-02-2006 at 07:07 PM
check the cable for loose connections or fuxored parts, that happened to me and it was the cable 
RE: Possible Vid Card issue by CookieRevised on 10-02-2006 at 07:31 PM
Out of experience, this is useally caused by dusty, loose or even broken connectors, pins on the connector or loose wire inside the connectors. It is very rarely the monitor itself and even more rarely the cable itself.
But as said by the others, in theory it can be anything from the monitor to the PC card.