# IT Guys **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-guys/253507 **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic **Created:** [July 26, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-guys/253507 "2010-07-26T19:10:27Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya) #### Post date: [July 27, 2010, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-guys/253507/9 "2010-07-27T12:43:42Z")
> [@Photo Shoot v.240/s4/ss](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/photo-shoot-v-240-s4-ss/33854/7): > > Cable or monitor. For being a techie, I’m surprised you arent running a full DVI setup, shame on you! lol. If it’s not my slot, it’s my cable/adapter. Definitely not my LCD TV as my XBox has been fine this entire time as well as TV. I’d have to look, but I don’t think my Samsung LCD TV has DVI. I’ll have to look. Maybe I should upgrade to full DVI if it does lol. > [@If the board ever goes down](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/if-the-board-ever-goes-down/33858/19): > > Have you tried using the onboard video connectiong to make sure it isn’t a more serious issue? > > But I will agree that it sounds like a bad slot, either way your prob going to have to do some work. Yeah. I might just upgrade to i7/i9 anyway soon, so that’ll take the board out of the equation. I’m thinking it’s the board being flaky for sure, because when the problem happened my PC popped and I smelt electrical smoke. But it’s been fine the last couple of hours after getting the video card back from MSI after it’s RMA. The smell was coming from the video card, so it’s possible it took something with it on the board. > [@FS: 1994 Del Sol Si CLEAN $4500 low milage](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-1994-del-sol-si-clean-4500-low-milage/33862/2): > > VGA cable or DVI-VGA adapter… or even poor factory soldering on said DVI port. You should be able to invoke failure by wiggling the cable. I tried wiggling the cable to no avail yesterday when it first happen. I just let it run and it eventually it cleared up all by itself. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/it-guys/253507)._