Artifacting/Flickering

heroman87 · 06-26-2008, 10:18 PM

Hey, I just installed a new ASUS Crosshair II Mobo, I have 2 8800gt video cards in SLI, and when I boot up, I get red artifacting all over my screen, in alot of cases they look like scanlines. Right now as I am typing, my screen is tinded a cyan colour. It happens right from boot, the first screen i see is tinted and flickering red. I've tried just each video card by itself, and still no fix. Both cards worked fine with my old mobo, an m2n-e sli but I fubar'd it when I flashed the bios. Every where I looked online, they said it was heat issues, but it happens right from the get go, as soon as the card spins up. This better not be an issue that can be fixed through flashing the bios, or I'm sending the motherboard back and living as a monk in the mountains.

The monitor also flickers off for a second now and again, when I change the resolution to 1440x900 ( i have a 19" wide monitor ) i get lots of flickering and my monitor says resolution not supported.

UPDATE:
Hmm... just tried my dad's monitor. Same size/resolution. NO ARTIFACTING.
but... BUT... when I used my monitor on his computer, no problems... Im gonna check to see if it's just the DVI on my monitor that's messed up. Hopefully it is, i'm happy with sticking to VGA, at least I can use my computer.

Okay, UPDATE 2:
Apparently the DVI on my monitor is pooched, but the VGA works fine. I may just have to use this as an excuse to buy myself the 22" one I was looking at. Thanks for all your guys' help :P I really needed it.

Mooncatt · 06-27-2008, 07:24 AM

i run quad sli m8 and i also get some artifacting too but its only a few dots here and there. according to research its normal for my setup to do this. but if your getting it really it bad try turning off the sli and see if that fixes it. sorry i cant be more help

06-26-2008, 10:18 PM	#1 (permalink)
heroman87 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Ontario,Canada Posts: 106 OS: Windows Vista Ultimate	Artifacting/Flickering Hey, I just installed a new ASUS Crosshair II Mobo, I have 2 8800gt video cards in SLI, and when I boot up, I get red artifacting all over my screen, in alot of cases they look like scanlines. Right now as I am typing, my screen is tinded a cyan colour. It happens right from boot, the first screen i see is tinted and flickering red. I've tried just each video card by itself, and still no fix. Both cards worked fine with my old mobo, an m2n-e sli but I fubar'd it when I flashed the bios. Every where I looked online, they said it was heat issues, but it happens right from the get go, as soon as the card spins up. This better not be an issue that can be fixed through flashing the bios, or I'm sending the motherboard back and living as a monk in the mountains. The monitor also flickers off for a second now and again, when I change the resolution to 1440x900 ( i have a 19" wide monitor ) i get lots of flickering and my monitor says resolution not supported. UPDATE: Hmm... just tried my dad's monitor. Same size/resolution. NO ARTIFACTING. but... BUT... when I used my monitor on his computer, no problems... Im gonna check to see if it's just the DVI on my monitor that's messed up. Hopefully it is, i'm happy with sticking to VGA, at least I can use my computer. Okay, UPDATE 2: Apparently the DVI on my monitor is pooched, but the VGA works fine. I may just have to use this as an excuse to buy myself the 22" one I was looking at. Thanks for all your guys' help :P I really needed it. __________________ ASUS Crosshair II AM2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2GHZ 4GB Corsair XMS2 PC5400 Dual-SLI'd 8800gt 512mb Last edited by heroman87; 06-26-2008 at 10:35 PM.

06-27-2008, 07:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
Mooncatt Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 32 OS: winxp sp3	Re: Artifacting/Flickering i run quad sli m8 and i also get some artifacting too but its only a few dots here and there. according to research its normal for my setup to do this. but if your getting it really it bad try turning off the sli and see if that fixes it. sorry i cant be more help