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Alternating white/grey stripes on monitor

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/alternating-white-grey-stripes-on-monitor.172136/

darkv0id
darkv0id Original post #1
Mar 31, 2013 at 6:03 AM
Okay so my friend his facing a problem with his monitor and I hope you guys can help. He tells me that while playing Guild Wars 2 on his PC, alternating white/grey stripes cover his display, accompanied by a buzzing sound from his speakers. Their occurrence is completely random (happen irrespective of whether he is in a heavily populated zone, in combat or not), they disappear when he restarts his PC, and do not appear until he plays Guild Wars 2 again. Very recently while playing GW2, his screen went blank and a "No Signal" message appeared, but no buzzing sound came from the speakers.

His specs:-
i5 2500k @Stock speed, voltages
Sapphire HD7850 2GB OC Edition @925 MHz
ASRock Z77 Extreme 4
Corsair GS 700
Corsair Vengeance 8x2GB @1600MHz
BenQ GL2450

Thoughts?
saswat23
saswat23 #2
Mar 31, 2013 at 11:30 AM
Not sure but it seems to be a GPU problem.
nikhilsharma007nikx
nikhilsharma007nikx #3
Mar 31, 2013 at 4:15 PM
appears to be a game problem try with other games .
harshilsharma63
harshilsharma63 #4
Mar 31, 2013 at 7:18 PM
Does it happen only with guild wars 2?
nikhilsharma007nikx
nikhilsharma007nikx #6
Apr 1, 2013 at 6:22 PM
then surely a game problem . try with another fresh copy of the game .