Im wondering

[Jake Ryan]

I have a vid of the problem my computer is having.
In the vid, you see the screen is trembling heavily. This continues while having any windowed program running.
The effect will subside, when in a full screen program, such as DiRT which I show in the vid.
Also, I took out the vid card, and it did this with just the on board video aswell.
My query is, is this a monitor, MB, or vid card problem? Perhaps its not any of those?

http://s274.photobucket.com/albums/jj266/RyanPawz/?action=view&current=100_4047.flv

[KrokE]

I would think it's probably your monitor on it's way out, possibly combo of monitor/vid card.

[Jake Ryan]

Im fairly certain the 55lb monster is near its end.
The vid card seems to be fine. I think the MO BO is bad. Its under a year old, so I hope I can exchange it. Maby the store will do for the sale of a new 22" widescreen, and another stick of RAM. If not, I can take my business elsewhere.

[Wraith]

Most likely the monitor. When in doubt, ask a friend to borrow his and see if it does the same thing. If you have the monitor locked to higher refresh rates than normal (either beyond DDC specs but still within the monitor's physical capabilities or just beyond what windows or your graphics card is imposing), then you can notice these things earlier in some cases. However, sometimes it might just be an issue with that specific frequency, and increasing or decreasing it might fix it.

Just use the drivers or windows' method of adjusting refresh rate (a resolution change is required before it will take affect). If that doesn't work try a resolution change.

[Tomh]

Wraith is pointing you in the right direction. You need a friend with either a known good monitor you can try out, or a known good computer you can try your monitor on. That should tell you conclusively if it is the monitor, or something with the vid card / computer.

[Jake Ryan]

I changed the refresh down to 60 when the screen started bouncing again. That cleared it up.
I have my eye on a 22" LG. It was time for an upgrade anyhow.

[Jake Ryan]

An update: I have tried to get one more gig of RAM, but the computer rejected it. I guess my MO BO is retarded. I thought XP supports up to 3 gig? Well I upgraded my vid card instead. I went from an NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT with 1 gig ddr2 RAM, to an NVIDIA 9800 GT with 512 of gddr3. This cleared up my speed problems with running COH, I havent tried DiRT of Flat Out yet. I really love this new monitor even more now :D