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check the settings on the monitors' menu for the hz setting, set it to the lowest setting and reboot the pc, if still nothing happens then your video card is most likely what we in the industry refer to as F*cked :) but good thing is prices on good video cards are at an all time low.. :D
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But that's already the newest piece! :)


And, yes, it did work...it's not that the part and the problem coincided......
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whats your resolution set to?
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Sounds like the video card is set to a resolution that the monitor can't support. ATI (AMD) or NVidia?
Aircheck? You'd make a great board op.
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I had a generic ati once that caused similar problems, i just went to ati's website and downloaded their drivers instead of the ones visiontek updated, totally solved my problem.. dunno if it helps but its worth a shot..

(edit) also, did you check your bios setting to make sure your card slot didn't reset when you installed the new video card?
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The card is a generic ATI Radeon 9250.

It'll be the weekend or Monday before I can check these things....thanks for the suggestions so far.
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you can overclock the 9000 thru 9500 models to run like 9800's, its the same chipset on the card, just gotta turn the pipelines on in the card..
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