Had a rare PC crash yesterday, usually rock stable, restarted OK but then did the same thing a few minutes later. I have two HDD's, one a mirror of the other so shutdown, went into BIOS to swap the startup order but found the BIOS screen was also a mess, pixels missing in sets/patterns but I could read the majority of the BIOS screen.
Restarted on the second harddrive, no different, several BSOD's on start-up then finally reached the desktop in 640x480 resolution and yellow lines across the screen.. (screen grab below)
Opened the box up, checked the CPU fan was running, also the videocard fan, all OK and temps normal.
EVGA Precision app claims "No supported Hardware" when I run it for the videocard and there's no evidence of drivers?? Reloaded a new set of nVidia drivers, still nothing available option wise.
Does this point to faulty videocard? I don't want to buy one just to find the same problem, what's the most likely hardware problem here? Could it be CPU, motherboard, memory problems masquerading as a video fault?
Spec is Asus P5Q, nVidia 8800GTS 512, E5200 CPU 2.5GHz clocked to 3.0GHz, 2GB memory, Windows XP
Thanks
Restarted on the second harddrive, no different, several BSOD's on start-up then finally reached the desktop in 640x480 resolution and yellow lines across the screen.. (screen grab below)
Opened the box up, checked the CPU fan was running, also the videocard fan, all OK and temps normal.
EVGA Precision app claims "No supported Hardware" when I run it for the videocard and there's no evidence of drivers?? Reloaded a new set of nVidia drivers, still nothing available option wise.
Does this point to faulty videocard? I don't want to buy one just to find the same problem, what's the most likely hardware problem here? Could it be CPU, motherboard, memory problems masquerading as a video fault?
Spec is Asus P5Q, nVidia 8800GTS 512, E5200 CPU 2.5GHz clocked to 3.0GHz, 2GB memory, Windows XP
Thanks