Strange monitor problem (RESOLVED)

binarysoul

I have a Samsung SynchMaster 753s monitor. When I scroll, the page is distored as below:



I've reinstalled the video card driver and changed the refresh rate from 60khz to 75, but it remains the same. Any ideas? It just drives me nuts

whistler

binarysoul wrote:

I have a Samsung SynchMaster 753s monitor. When I scroll, the page is distored as below:



I've reinstalled the video card driver and changed the refresh rate from 60khz to 75, but it remains the same. Any ideas? It just drives me nuts

Decrease the hardware acceleration.

What card do you have?

binarysoul

The card is "Intel 82845G Graphics Controller".

Here is the link:

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel845g/sb/cs-009081.htm

In XP, Where can I change hardware acceleration?

binarysoul

Turns out it was memory-related. The PC had 128mb of ram and I added 256 more and problem disappeared.

Was that expected?

JDMurray

binarysoul wrote:

Turns out it was memory-related. The PC had 128mb of ram and I added 256 more and problem disappeared.

Was that expected?

Oh sure. WinXP was so heavily lagged by it needing to constantly swap to disk that it could not properly render the graphical output. If you had cmd.exe as your shell WinXP would have worked just fine.

dynamik

Yea. You need to remember that integrated/on-board video doesn't have it's own memory like add-on cards. That graphics adapter was taking up to 32mb of your 128mb. That would make things a bit tight

Check this out: http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel845g/sb/cs-009088.htm

JDMurray

I'm actually very surprised that WinXP was usable with only 128MB. I would assume that once you started a couple of apps it would be so sluggish as to be aggravating to use. I know the minimum RAM for XP is 64MB, but that's just ridiculous, even when it was released back in 2001.