Bit of a strange one, this.

mcgriffo · 15 May 2007 at 22:57

I've recently built a PC and it's been fine - no glitches, graphics great, smooth running etc.

There is just ONE slightly strange thing... when I boot up and you see the POST screen, everything looks normal, RAM declaration etc and then, just that split second before Windows loads up, the screen flickers and the POST text kind of flashes in weird heiroglyphics - or a corrupt version of what is already on there.

This last for a split second and you'd miss it if you blinked.

It doesn't cause a problem, Windwos loads fine and I play games etc with no graphic proboems at all. I just wondered if anyone had any ideas what this is? I don't even know if I'm describing it very well....

For the record, I have a P5b WIFI Deluxe, GTS8800, both with latest bios, drivers etc

Any ideas?

mcgriffo · 18 May 2007 at 13:15

Anyone?

Slinky1989 · 18 May 2007 at 13:17

I get the same sort of thing on my p5n-e sli.

Except it's not corrupt, it said: "invalid boot .ini. now loading c:/windows"

and then boots into windows fine.

I think this might be what you're looking at, sorry I can't be of any more help but that should be what it says.

g00dsh0t · 18 May 2007 at 22:35

long shot but is your system overclocked?
if it is it could be that " overclocking failed" text that shows on the left/bottom of screen,just before the windows loading bar.I think its in yellow text.......just a guess m8

sgx.saint · 19 May 2007 at 02:51

g00dsh0t said:
long shot but is your system overclocked?
if it is it could be that " overclocking failed" text that shows on the left/bottom of screen,just before the windows loading bar.I think its in yellow text.......just a guess m8

One of my old PC systems used to do something similar and it was just the GFX card not understanding the data being sent to it right before booting into Windows.

Well, thats the best explanation I can tie to it. But, if it's not causing you any issues don't worry about it. If anyone asks, just say its some l33t hax0ring software you wrote that like does something epic lol