Shadows on my screen: Monitor or card?

[Tim Wunder]

Previously, Andrew Mathews chose to write:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Suddenly, I am getting shadows on my screen.
> > In a xterm window, each line with text has a faint dark band going
> > across the entire line.  This also appears in html documents while
> > web surfing.
> >
> > I have played with my monitor settings, but the lines won't go away.
> > Question? Is this failing hardware? Is this likely the monitor going
> > bad or the video card?
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> I had a video card go bad on one of my machines that caused a very
> similar problem. Banding and shadowing on every screen. Replacing the
> card fixed the problem. I'd try the monitor on a different machine if
> possible, see if the problem follows the monitor. If not, I'd say the
> card is the problem.

I just got back from my brother's house troubleshooting the same problem. I 
plugged in a known good monitor and the banding/shadowing still happened. 
Sounds to me like it's the video card. He's got a generic Nvidia FWIW.

Tim

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