Ok so i had a pc build for me a few years ago, it quickly had a number of issues and 2 years ago i 'died' in my eyes and i gave up on it.
I've decided to see if i can't use it as a useful troubleshooting process now, and funnily enough got it to boot... briefly..
Ok so the problem as i remember it was the screen displaying what would appear to be a graphics card failure, colours going wrong, display going crazy etc.
It has no onboard so i could never test that theory, and tbh i didn't have the knowledge back then to test it whatsoever.
After a while i would only get to the gigabyte screen and stop, no amount of inputs let me get anywhere.
So to today: I was bored, took out hdd and turned it on, couldn't get into bios.
Took out a stick of RAM and turned it on, could get into bios, wanted me to boot after i left so i thought brilliant, ill stick in hdd and boot and see what happens.
It brings up the usual safe mode normally etc, it wont boot into safe mode, it goes back to post, on a loop.
I have now twice managed to get it into windows when starting normally, however after 30 seconds - 1 minute the display goes, still see but pixilated and wrong colours etc.
It is currently on and booted, in that state, but i don't hold much trust that it will stay that way. its bsod'ed a few times.
Either way if we can narrow down the issue it could be a cheapish fix for a second pc to run... wow? either way im waiting on an ivy build and don't have a pc, a 9800 is a big jump up from integrated graphics.
BTW so you can all lol, it's a cheapo psu, which did blow once and was replaced, i was young i didn't know better. This time im building myself and grabbing an 80 plus branded xfx
EDIT: was about to say its on and displaying normally... and as i was typing it bluescreened,... ah well i actually got some info from my docs that may help me
So if you ignored the rest:
Fancy helping me do some troubleshooting steps? If we cant fix it meh.
I've decided to see if i can't use it as a useful troubleshooting process now, and funnily enough got it to boot... briefly..
Ok so the problem as i remember it was the screen displaying what would appear to be a graphics card failure, colours going wrong, display going crazy etc.
It has no onboard so i could never test that theory, and tbh i didn't have the knowledge back then to test it whatsoever.
After a while i would only get to the gigabyte screen and stop, no amount of inputs let me get anywhere.
So to today: I was bored, took out hdd and turned it on, couldn't get into bios.
Took out a stick of RAM and turned it on, could get into bios, wanted me to boot after i left so i thought brilliant, ill stick in hdd and boot and see what happens.
It brings up the usual safe mode normally etc, it wont boot into safe mode, it goes back to post, on a loop.
I have now twice managed to get it into windows when starting normally, however after 30 seconds - 1 minute the display goes, still see but pixilated and wrong colours etc.
It is currently on and booted, in that state, but i don't hold much trust that it will stay that way. its bsod'ed a few times.
Either way if we can narrow down the issue it could be a cheapish fix for a second pc to run... wow? either way im waiting on an ivy build and don't have a pc, a 9800 is a big jump up from integrated graphics.
BTW so you can all lol, it's a cheapo psu, which did blow once and was replaced, i was young i didn't know better. This time im building myself and grabbing an 80 plus branded xfx
EDIT: was about to say its on and displaying normally... and as i was typing it bluescreened,... ah well i actually got some info from my docs that may help me
So if you ignored the rest:
Fancy helping me do some troubleshooting steps? If we cant fix it meh.
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