[Carmelia]

I bought an LCD monitor (ViewSonic VA1703wb) last week and for the first few days it was working fine. Then, it started to flicker, i.e. the colours blue or pink would flash on and off, tinting the screen.

Previously, I had a CRT monitor which was permanently tinted a deep pink or blue. I was told that the guns in the monitor were busted.

My graphics card is old, an nVidia GeForce 4 MX440 with AGP 8X (drivers are updated). To try to determine if the problem was the card, I switched the LCD monitor's plug to the integrated card - but it wouldn't work. 'No signal' would appear and then the monitor would just turn off (the light went orange).

Then, I went to the Device Manager and disabled the nVidia card (while still keeping the monitor plugged in to that card). Now, the colour appears to be fine and there's no flickering, but there's no right option for the resolution (I'm using a 17" widescreen) and everything is generally slow and crappy.

I've also checked the cables to see if they were loose and the pins to see if they were bent.

Buying a new graphics card isn't really going to happen right now, so my questions are:

1) Is it really a problem with the graphics card? If it is, is there any way to fix it without getting a new one?
2) How do I determine if the integrated card can support the LCD monitor?

[norton850]

Am I reading that you've disabled the NVidia card, but the monitor is still plugged into it and now the colors are fine?

[Carmelia]

Yes. It probably sounds kind of senseless, but that's what happened.