Hi, I have been having a problem with my computer lately. The screen is blurry, or rather any time you have something dark on the screen, it streaks across horizontally.
It looks something like this.
I thought it was my monitor, so I bought a new one, and it looks exactly the same. My friend told me it might be a problem with the video card though. I took it out, blew off the dust with a can, and made sure it was firmly plugged into the motherboard (it's PCI). No help.
I also updated all of the drivers, and still it is the same.
Do you think my video card has just gone bad? Should I just replace it? Or could it be some other issue?
I am running an HP Pavilion, Athlon 1.1 ghz with an Nvidia 16 MB card (TNT2 I think).
Thanks in advance!
It looks something like this.
I thought it was my monitor, so I bought a new one, and it looks exactly the same. My friend told me it might be a problem with the video card though. I took it out, blew off the dust with a can, and made sure it was firmly plugged into the motherboard (it's PCI). No help.
I also updated all of the drivers, and still it is the same.
Do you think my video card has just gone bad? Should I just replace it? Or could it be some other issue?
I am running an HP Pavilion, Athlon 1.1 ghz with an Nvidia 16 MB card (TNT2 I think).
Thanks in advance!