Gary Ledgerwood Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Last week while working on a model in Max, these random pink and green dots starting popping up around my two monitors. They seem to come and go. They usually populate faster during rendering and blink on and off and move around the screen. I tried posting a screen shot, but it doesnt capture the phenomenon. I am suspecting my video card, but I have only had this machine for a few months now. It is a Dell XPS 9100 i7 with 12GB of ram. 64 bit operating system. The video card is an ATI Radeon HD 5970 (2GB). Any thoughts on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_mccreadie Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Hi Gary, I had the same thing a couple of months back, for me it was a dodgy DVI cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Ledgerwood Posted August 28, 2011 Author Share Posted August 28, 2011 Thank you for the reply. I havent tried switching out cables yet because I have my system set up with a KVM switch. I have 6 DVI cables attached to it. One thing that I have noticed is that the dots only happen when switched over to the pc I mentioned above, and only when using 3ds Max. No other programs create this issue. Do you think that could still possibly be a cable issue? It seems to be getting worse. i.e. more dots, more frequently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_mccreadie Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 I run a dual monitor KVM and all it took was one cable to cause it. The only other thing I think it could be is a problem with your graphics card? I would try it without the KVM, if it works fine then you know its one of the cables or the KVM that's the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Ledgerwood Posted August 31, 2011 Author Share Posted August 31, 2011 Alright, I am 99% sure that the issue is Nitrous related. I have no issues running sketchup, photoshop, or even 3ds Max 2011. As soon as I open a file in 2012, the dots start coming and going. I switched to Direct3D and didnt seem to have any issues, but navigating large scenes was super slow again. Any thoughts to remedy this? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattclinch Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Everytime had thus its been a soon-to-fail graphics card.. Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Ledgerwood Posted November 18, 2011 Author Share Posted November 18, 2011 Ok, sorry to reopen a dead thread, but... Dell diagnosed my machine and ended up replacing the video card. Now 3 months later, I am having the same issues. Is there anything else that could be damaging the video cards? I actually got a wall of weird dots today, then the machine froze, and then to a blue screen of death. I was able to see the words "display", "driver" and "failed" before it shutdown on me. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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