Picture Distorted

[ajackson269]

Hi folks when i turned on my pc today the picture was distorted really messed up i waited till it had finished startup then switched it off then started it up again and it seems fine now but just worried there my be a problem any ideas guys....

[Guest Wolfeymole]

You might need an updated graphics driver Alan.

 

What's the make and model of your pc and are you using onboard graphics or a card?

[ajackson269]

Hi Wolfey the graphics card is a few weeks old the make and model of my pc is as follows:

packard bell imedia mc 2470

pentium D 820 2.80ghz

2Gb RAM

600 watt ATX psu

8600GT 1MB NVIDIA Graphics card

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Can you go describe how it seemed to be messed up and was ok once the OS had loaded Alan?

[ajackson269]

there just lines and squares could'nt make anything out and it wasnt ok after the os loaded i had to turn it off by holding the power button it is ok now though

[Guest Wolfeymole]

I'd make sure the graphics plug is secure to the pc Alan and if running a TFT then on both pc and monitor.

[ajackson269]

yip they are all tight that was the first thing i checked

[Dalo Harkin]

If you get lines on the screen its normally the RAM on the GPU - do they have adequate cooling - the coolers on GPU's are very rarely enough - you should at least have one fan blowing over the GPU -