Shoutbox

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

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

it doesn't happen all the time just 3 times the past month

check the cable for loose connections or fuxored parts, that happened to me and it was the cable

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.