vertical tearing

[Profquast]

I'm getting vertical tearing on my main monitor which is hooked up to a radeon hd 6450, but not on my secondary which is on intel hd graphics. Could my radeon be dying? Might just be possible since it's a oem Dell card manufactured by Pegatron.

[Cacao]

You have to start eliminating points of failure. In this case you have your monitor, your cable and your GPU. Since you know your iGPU is working fine, you should test it with that first, if it doesn't fix it change the cable as well. If it still doesn't work it's a problem with your monitor, if it does work, your GPU is dying.

[Profquast]

Hmm, it stopped doing it, though using the same monitor with a vga cable to the iGpu and a DVI to the radeon makes an enormous difference color wise.

[hehehehhehehehe]

You have to start eliminating points of failure. In this case you have your monitor, your cable and your GPU. Since you know your iGPU is working fine, you should test it with that first, if it doesn't fix it change the cable as well. If it still doesn't work it's a problem with your monitor, if it does work, your GPU is dying.

Not necessarily dying... It could be driver related or something similar...

[hehehehhehehehe]

Hmm, it stopped doing it, though using the same monitor with a vga cable to the iGpu and a DVI to the radeon makes an enormous difference color wise.

So has the issue been fixed for you then?

[Profquast]

for now at least. I'll just mark solved on my own post.

[Profquast]

okay it does it again, and only on the radeon. Will see how it goes