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Problem description: I have two monitors hooked up to my Radeon 7950 right now. One is a DCLLCD 1680 x 1050 monitor (the one which does this) and the other is an ASUS 1080p monitor that works fine. Sometimes when I play a game or play a video in a browser, the DCLLCD shits the bed. See picture below. Attempted fixes: I tried to reset the DVI cables at the card and monitor. I'll turn off the hosed up monitor and try to turn it back on. The only 'fixes' that work are rebooting or, usually, just stopping the video playback. Recent changes: The only recent change I made to the desktop was a water cooler for my cpu because of a memory swap; the old air cooler interfered. watch_dogs is the only new software to coincide with the start of the monitor going out of sync, though oddly enough I can throw a browser up on the little monitor while I play on the big and it works fine! It's just embedded video. -- Operating system: Windows 7 x64 System specs: Home built: Core i5 2500K, Radeon 7950, 16GB of ram, onboard sound, mediocre netgear USB dongle wifi with a little dongle holder. Location: Jacksonville FL USA I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes/No 
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Jun 28, 2014 19:16
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Is it possible to switch the DVI cables and plugs temporarily to see what happens?
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Jun 28, 2014 23:37
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Zogo posted:Is it possible to switch the DVI cables and plugs temporarily to see what happens? Yeah, it could be that the cables you are using aren't passing all the freqs/resolutions the monitor can handle and forces the OS to guess. I don't know of a program within Windows to show the output of this information but a simple swap of the cables is a good start, also a swap of the ports used on the GPU could also be a valid step.
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Jun 29, 2014 01:19
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I swapped what went into what port on the video card, so the default monitor was the big one. No difference. I haven't swapped cables yet, though. I'll give that shot. What kills me is that it's only ever when video plays, be it a movie player or in a browser, but it's intermittent. What should I try after that?
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Jun 29, 2014 20:23
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Have you tried updating to the latest AMD Catalyst Beta drivers? (Release drivers are not recommended for AMD cards due to the delay involved in MS certification.)
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Jun 29, 2014 20:48
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Updated drivers aaaaaaaaaaand... Pusheen video hosed up the big monitor instead 
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Jul 4, 2014 01:17
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Well we know it's not the monitor at least. Is that with the cables completely switched or just the plugs switched?
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Jul 5, 2014 00:58
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After I switched the plugs it was still the small monitor. With the new driver and plugs still switched, it's now the big monitor. But it hasn't done it since. This is very, very odd.
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Jul 5, 2014 04:01
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gently caress them posted:After I switched the plugs it was still the small monitor. That means that the video card outputs and cables are probably okay. I'd probably run DDU http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/ and then reinstall the latest beta drivers.
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Jul 5, 2014 05:31
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