Waves On External Lcd monitor, Power supply reduces the waves

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So, here is some background :
I had a CRT monitor. I replaced it with used LCD monitor, as my Crt was having time to time power issues.

lcd hp le1711 , it was. I attached it with my computer and i was exposed to fuzzy different waves on my lcd. There pattern is unique every time and changes from time to time. The fuzziness and wavy lines increase , when , i am playing a heavy game or some time , it also even starts blinking. This happens , when i am performing some heavy duty tasks , like video rendering or gaming etc.

Things , i tried :
1) My lcd monitor is OK , as it works great when connected to other system.
2) Replacing vga cable . It doesnt has any affect
3) Replacing Ram, It doesnt has any affect


I changed my power supply unit (psu) , and it worked. I played games and performed other heavy tasks and it also didn't blinked.(My cpu also casually shuts down , if it is performing heavy tasks, This issue was also resolved. It didn't shut downed on friend's psu). Now here is a bad part. I bought a psu from market ,as the one that worked was of my friend's. It had same wavy effect again. On noticing lcd display with friend's psu, i checked that , there were small blinks , that even cant be seen , if you aren't noticing. Really really small . His psu was heavy on weight .

Now the problem , is i am back with my wavy screen issue.

Lastly , as i have seen some threads regarding the same issue. I am using my CRT'S power cable. Both my cpu and monitor have 2 prong sockets. Their 3rd prong( earth) is explicitly extracted from switch.


Sorry for the full story , but , its i tried to summarize most of it . This issue is eating me out.
 
Get a good power supply and make sure your GPU drivers are the most recent. I'd almost guarantee this is a result of insufficient power. But there could clearly be a number of reasons, so as Tradesman has indicated it would be thoroughly helpful to know what hardware you have.
 
Cpu's power supply unit..@darkbreeze I am new to toms hardware !!
I have pantium 4 2.8. By mobo you mean manufacturer ?
 
Its quite an old system , :
Motherboard : p5glmx
Processor intel 2.8 ghz single core
Power supply : Some thing like slech (company name)
 
I don't think it's Slech, and if it is, that's bad, as I've never heard of it and neither has Google. As I said to start with, this is very likely to be a result of a crappy power supply, and the fact that it's some brand nobody has ever heard of makes it ten times more likely. Add to that the fact that it worked fine with your friends power supply and it's almost a given. Since you have no graphics card installed, and unless you DO plan to install one in the future, I'd try to find a 300w or higher Tier 3 or higher unit as listed at the following link:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html#15349669


If you have plans to add a GPU card at some point, you might want to figure out what card you will plan to get and get a power supply that has sufficient capacity according to the following link, and make sure that it's Tier 2 or 1 since you'll be putting a lot more demand on the system in that case.


http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/Page362.htm