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aslowdodge

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Nov 12, 2012
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Hi All,

I have a macpro 4.1 (2 x 2.26 quadcores) with 32gb of ram.

I am running a dell 30 in monitor (2556x1600) and a samsung 20 in monitor (1600x1200). At first I ran just the 30 inch and all was fine. Now with 2 monitors hooked up after a while about 1/2 hours the monitors act weird. I get ghosts of windows and images: any ideas?

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ColdCase

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What video card are you using?

Is its cooling fan spinning? Any dust in the fins?

Could be a video card defect.

Perhaps try vacuuming out the card.
 

aslowdodge

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Nov 12, 2012
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there are 2 cards. Each is an NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512mb and each one runs one monitor. I'll try cleaning them out
 

ColdCase

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Both cards same problem? starts at the same time? You may want to clean out the power supply too.
 

aslowdodge

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Nov 12, 2012
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Both cards same problem? starts at the same time? You may want to clean out the power supply too.

I will dust out everything. Funny it started after adding the 2nd monitor . I doubt it made a difference, but I added 2 more SSD drives in the optical bay at the same time.
 

ColdCase

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Did you also add the second GT 120 at the same time? If so I'd suspect the power supply is getting lazy, or you have perhaps a loose connection somewhere.
 

aslowdodge

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Nov 12, 2012
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Did you also add the second GT 120 at the same time? If so I'd suspect the power supply is getting lazy, or you have perhaps a loose connection somewhere.

the 2nd card was already installed. I will open it up and clean everything and check to see if anything is partially unseated.
 
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