Hey
My brother's computer seems to be dead. Immediately after turning the PC on, at the POST screen, there are white vertical lines all over it, and other wierd graphical artefacts all the way up until it loads Windows, at which point the display goes black. It works if we boot it up in Safe Mode, with no graphics issues in Windows itself, but will not boot into Windows proper.
I've tried everything I can think of. Tested the screen, it's fine. I've tried unplugging unncessary components, testing individual bits and pieces etc...all I can say is that it's either the motherboard, graphics card or PSU. The PSU is a decent Antec one, with enough power, and the BIOS says all voltage lines are okay, so I don't think this is the problem. Given that an 'XPress Recovery' isn't available on bootup either (screen fills with green lines), I suspect the motherboard.
To be honest, it's time he had a new system anyway, so if this computer is dead, I think we'll buy him a new one - the Titan Nero on offer this week looks good, but I saw in another thread that the offer ends today, so we'll have to think about it.
I don't know the specs too well (and do they really matter in a case like this?) but it's a Gigabyte mobo, an AMD Socket 939 Athlon of some sort, 2Gb Geil RAM, and an nVidia GeForce 6600GT, I think.
So...if there's any quick fix to this, let me know. Otherwise, it's new PC time for him. When in safe mode, the computer runs Prime95 and 3D Mark with no problems at all, and Memtest reports no errors. Everything looks to me to be pointing towards the motherboard.
Thanks in advance
tTz
My brother's computer seems to be dead. Immediately after turning the PC on, at the POST screen, there are white vertical lines all over it, and other wierd graphical artefacts all the way up until it loads Windows, at which point the display goes black. It works if we boot it up in Safe Mode, with no graphics issues in Windows itself, but will not boot into Windows proper.
I've tried everything I can think of. Tested the screen, it's fine. I've tried unplugging unncessary components, testing individual bits and pieces etc...all I can say is that it's either the motherboard, graphics card or PSU. The PSU is a decent Antec one, with enough power, and the BIOS says all voltage lines are okay, so I don't think this is the problem. Given that an 'XPress Recovery' isn't available on bootup either (screen fills with green lines), I suspect the motherboard.
To be honest, it's time he had a new system anyway, so if this computer is dead, I think we'll buy him a new one - the Titan Nero on offer this week looks good, but I saw in another thread that the offer ends today, so we'll have to think about it.
I don't know the specs too well (and do they really matter in a case like this?) but it's a Gigabyte mobo, an AMD Socket 939 Athlon of some sort, 2Gb Geil RAM, and an nVidia GeForce 6600GT, I think.
So...if there's any quick fix to this, let me know. Otherwise, it's new PC time for him. When in safe mode, the computer runs Prime95 and 3D Mark with no problems at all, and Memtest reports no errors. Everything looks to me to be pointing towards the motherboard.
Thanks in advance
tTz
