Hardware guys, I need your help!

[zulander]

That's what my screen looks like and for the life of me I can't figure it out. I have an ati 9800+ pro card and these are the things that I've tried doing to fix this problem.

1. Uninstall old drivers, get new ones.

2. Update monitor drivers.

3. Fix color output (in desktop settings)

4. Messed with res and refresh rate

5. Uninstall drivers and let windows update and fix them for me.

6. Run ad-aware to kill any type of trojan creating this problem.

I've done other things as well but I just can't remember what they were. When I first had this problem on Saturday the thing that fixed the problem was going from 32 bit color to 16 bit color in desktop settings. That fixed the problem... until today. Honestly, I'm stumped.

[Illissius]

Does the pink noise move, or stay in place?

I would check if the color depth in desktop settings hadn't gone back to 32bit, if you haven't done this already. Don't see why it would reset spontaneously, but computers are eminently strange creatures.

I'd also check your RAM and video card for hardware defects. There's software for the former (memtest86+); I'm not sure what you can do for the latter besides swapping in a different one and seeing if that fixes it.

[ashiXIII]

Also, try another monitor. Yours could be on the way out.

[zulander]

Well I fixed it now by unplugging the video card and taking the dust out and reconnected it. Probably a loose connection. However the monitor couldn't be the problem, the picture appeared like that in a print screen, if it was the monitor the print screen would be clean. But I have a new problem! When I scroll up and down on websites my compute does the wave, as in half the screen scrolls while the other lags behind. Any ideas?

[ProtegeX3]

What kind of power supply do you have? If your power supply is right on the minimum recommended for your Video card, it might not be getting enough power and that might cause it to lag like that. I had to replace my power supply when i got a new vid card a while back cuz it would only display have the screen cuz I had a weak power supply.

You ought to have at least a 350W power supply, anything under that is not a good idea with newer video cards.

[freakish777]

Well I fixed it now by unplugging the video card and taking the dust out and reconnected it. Probably a loose connection. However the monitor couldn't be the problem, the picture appeared like that in a print screen, if it was the monitor the print screen would be clean. But I have a new problem! When I scroll up and down on websites my compute does the wave, as in half the screen scrolls while the other lags behind. Any ideas?

Now try reinstalling the drivers.  Its possible when you pulled it out that the system decided that since it was unplugged to rollback the drivers (Plug N Play).