I've just been given a spare hard drive that works great except for one thing. Whenever I move my mouse the monitor goes a reddy colour and sometimes has stripes. It's not my monitor, mouse, keyboard etc as they work fine when hooked up to my original hardrive. My refresh rate is 75 hertz my power is okay I guess because I run my comp on it with no probs.
Am I up for a new video card or could it be something else??? Any help would be greatly appreciated as it's a great hardrive with everything I want in it.
Cheers!!
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Jump to Postit's a great hardrive with everything I want in it.
Cheers!!does that mean you didn't do a fresh install of windows,or are you refering to the whole tower as a harddrive !!
Jump to PostYes I am referring to the whole tower as a hard drive, oops hehehe. I did not do a fresh install of windows. The harddrive thats in the tower I was given has Windows xp professional on it and I only have home edition so I want to keep xp …
Jump to PostVideo card might look like its in right ,but sometime it out of the slot slightly on one end,!!,make sure its in fully on both ends ,if its AGP[brown slot ] make sure the little lock ,if one exists, is in lock position
Jump to PostI tried the moniter on another computer and it works well, it mainly happens when the mouse gets moved or a program is running
Since this a reciently recieve tower ,have you ran any virus scan or spywre scans on it since you got it .
start with this one …
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