My screen (or rather a different one) is back. To be fair, I wanted a new screen as I had a nasty accident with my first. Tried to change to HDMI to see if it solved my snow problem, and whilst reaching behind screen with HDMI cable, the very tip of the cable lightly touched the screen coating and left a mark about 5 pixels big. Was gutting! Unbelievably kindly though, Hazro (and specifically Jez) authorised a total replacement when I returned my old one for a firmware upgrade. Now that's customer service!
Anyway, comments:
Banding is completely gone, as previously reported. However, my snow problem is now HORRENDOUS, appearing all over the place! On the Checkemon Colour Gradients, it's all over the bottom right of my screen! Going to install Powerstrip now and pray it resolves my issue when I reduce the ramdac vertical frequency. Will update shortly....
UPDATE 1:
Just restarted after installing Powerstrip - I even bave major snow on the Windows XP boot screen - ie black with just the windows logo! NOOOOOOOOO!
UPDATE 2:
Had a very long phone call from Jez re the snow. On CheckeMon, using the colour gradients screen, I had APPALLING snow on the pink/purple screen. No amount of tweaking of powerstrip removed it. In the end, we tried changing DVI port on my Radeon 4850 and bizarrely, that has solved all my snow problems. However, I am waiting to see whether it remains gone!