New monitor freaking out (Dell Gaming S2417DG)

[Ultra_Man52]

Hello. I haven't been here in a while so please be gentle. My new monitor is flipping out and I have no idea what to do. At first I could only do 120hz, and when I chose it it would flash black and brown on one monitor and grey and the other. Eventually I got it to get 144hz when I restarted it, but then it started acting up in games, with big horizontal lines appearing when I played. I'm not sure what to do. I just updated my drivers and the monitors are back to the state of brown and black, and grey. Could this have a correlation with my GPU's clock speed not being the same (which is also happening, probably should've mentioned it earlier)? 

 

System Specs:

i5 6600K @3.9 ghz 

2x Zotac Reference 980 Ti's (weird clock speeds)

16GB 3200 Corsair Dominator RAM

Gigabyte Gaming 7 Motherboard

 

please help!

[ProjectBox153]

Try with just one monitor. Have you reseated everything with the cables?

[EunSoo]

So your aoc is also getting messed up? That sounds like your computer is the issue, not the monitor. Try running the Dell by itself though.

[Ultra_Man52]

Alright, I unplugged my AOC and had just my Dell on, and it let me show the display so that I could I guess fully restart and install the driver. I unplugged both and plugged them back in, and they are working fine for now. I'll test the games and see if I get the lines.

 

[Ultra_Man52]

9 minutes ago, Ultra_Man52 said:

Alright, I unplugged my AOC and had just my Dell on, and it let me show the display so that I could I guess fully restart and install the driver. I unplugged both and plugged them back in, and they are working fine for now. I'll test the games and see if I get the lines.

 

The lines still exist. Could it be something with my graphics cards de-syncing on frequencies?

 

@SCGazelle @Jamiec1130

[EunSoo]

23 minutes ago, Ultra_Man52 said:

The lines still exist. Could it be something with my graphics cards de-syncing on frequencies?

 

@SCGazelle @Jamiec1130

Do you have both monitors connected to the same gpu? If not try doing that but I'm not sure if that's relevant to your issue

[Ultra_Man52]

4 minutes ago, SCGazelle said:

Do you have both monitors connected to the same gpu? If not try doing that but I'm not sure if that's relevant to your issue

Yeah I have both connected to the first gpu, it freaks out if I put it in the second gpu

[Bcat00]

Guessing another kink that needs to be ironed out in sli.?

[Ultra_Man52]

11 hours ago, Bcat00 said:

Guessing another kink that needs to be ironed out in sli.?

I doubt it's a problem with SLI

[JorAlv]

Try removing one time each of the GPUs to make sure they individually work fine.

[Ultra_Man52]

3 hours ago, JorAlv said:

Try removing one time each of the GPUs to make sure they individually work fine.

did this, still the same problem

[Ultra_Man52]

It turns out the lines appear in only 2 games that I play, H1Z1 and totally accurate battle simulator. Does that help at all?

[JorAlv]

1 hour ago, Ultra_Man52 said:

did this, still the same problem

So the problem happened with either of the GPUs individually?

Have you tried with the iGPU?

[Ultra_Man52]

On 6/12/2017 at 4:30 PM, JorAlv said:

So the problem happened with either of the GPUs individually?

Have you tried with the iGPU?

Yes it happened with both GPUs. I also brought it to a friends house, and it worked perfectly on his system. 

[JorAlv]

Have you got enough display outputs in your motherboards i/o for both monitors? Try removing both GPUs  and connecting the monitors to the motherboard.

Also, when it happens, try removing your old monitor.