GeForce Ultra 6800 defective? Could be monitor or drivers, but not card, need help!

[2tall]

Hey all, I picked up a geforce 6800 ultra in December. Last week I noticed some weird artifacts when using 2D apps on the windows xp desktop (most notably quicken and IE). What happens is, for certain apps, every now and again, I'll get a whole horizontal line of pixels (or 2) across the screen to flicker. Occasionally, I get a bleeding effect too.

I thought it was the card, but I returned it and got a new one and the effect is still there.

It doesn't happen all the time and if I minimize the app and re-open it, it'll go away.

I've gotten the latest drivers, and my display hasn't caused me problems.

Thoughts?

 

[vnf4ultra]

6800ultra

Maybe your monitor? Try another to check if you can.

 

[DeathSummoner]

I had the same problem plug the monitor into to the other port on the graphics card that fixed my problem

 

[mailpup]

Try older graphics drivers. There have been problems reported with version 77.72 if that's the one you have.