JERKY GRAPHICS

[tprime]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
OK, I bought a new monitor and guess what? Jerky is back.
This is really driving me crazy people, someone please help.
Now the one time when jerky disappeared on me was when I connected my computer to my tv with an s-video cable. So now I know it's not my monitor, it's not my monitor cable, it's not the monitor connection to the video card because I've tried 2 different video cards and I hooked it up directly to my mobo.
I'm freakin out over here.

 

[tprime]

Ok, either everyone is sick of looking at my post, or you are all just as stumped as me. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also I scored over 11000 on 3d mark with my tv as a monitor compared to 9500 when I use my monitor

 

[tprime]

Just flashed my bios to most current version, still no luck

 

[tprime]

Installed via 4in1 hyperion driver version 4.45
No luck

 

[Taurus]

there's no way a monitor can hinder performance. i didn't think you were actually going to persue that.

but you've seemed to narrow the problem to your tv-out. try disconnecting the tv-out cable and restarting. also maybe search around and see if there is an option to disable regarding tv-out.

 

[tprime]

hehe, I needed a new monitor anyhow.... taurus, how could the problem be narrowed down to the tv out, the only time I did'nt experience any problems is when I used the tv out if anything I would think it is the vga connector on my video card, but I've tried 2 different cards

 

[Taurus]

forgot about the 2nd card. good point.

i was thinking maybe the tv-out was being set as the primary display so performance on the secondary (vga) was suffering. but with a completely different card doing the same thing, i'm stumped.

well, when you play games on the tv, it's at a lower resolution like 800x600... and on your monitor you probly have it set higher... so maybe you're seeing the beef 'jerky' at higher resolutions? try playing/benchmarking at a lower resolution like 640x480 and see if it's smooth. if so, it might be an agp problem or something.

 

[tprime]

Nope, tried benchmarking at 640x480 and still no go. Someone mentioned maybe something magnetic (like speakers) or metal studs in the wall, being to close to the computer, as a long shot........but still no luck.

 

[tprime]

Ok, well it's been a busy month at work for me, but I did finally figure out the problem. 3 words....External Zip drive. Seems it was causing my memory to spike. Anyhow disconnected it and everything runs excellent, love my new system finally. So I guess my question is.....Is this normal or do I have a &%#$@'d up zip drive. No big deal I don't plan on using it anymore now. I just want something to back up my music on, which I think I'll get an external hard drive for.

 

[Zedric]

Could have been just stupid drivers for the ZIP. The CPU was obviously buggerd by something.

I can't believe I didn't see this thread since I posted last time. I'm here almost every day...