Hello,
I recently upgraded to an Intel Core 2 DUO LGA775 E6400 2.13GHz / Gigabyte 965P DS3 / 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C5 DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (bundle from OC.UK), together with a Leadtek GeForce 7950 GT 512MB GDDR3. After I assemble the parts, I switched on the PC and some strange things happen.
This is what happens:
- I switch on the PC after a couple of hours being switched off.
- The ram checking screen of the video card shows, all ok till now.
- Now, this is the strange thing:
- The screen where the list of hdd/dvd together with RAM and CPU information is shown, however, with some sort of artifacts on the screen. The artifacts are like "matrix" style, just dots instead of numbers.
- If from this stage I go to the bios, artifacts disappear, however, if I reboot the computer instantly, the artifacts will reappear in the same screen.
- If I stay a bit longer (say a minute) in the bios, the artifacts will disappear and computer will boot normally.
- After this screen, the next screen (the one where that "table" shows up before the windows XP loading bar) appears, with the same artifacts.
- Afterwards, thw windows xp loading screen shows up, with the same artifacts. After 2-3 seconds, a blue screen shows up and computer reboots instantly.
The problem with all this is that it's not done constantly in all screens, and that after "some time", the artifacts will disappear completely and the computer will work like a bliss.
I tried my VGA on another computer, and work perfectly. I also tried another PSU (Enermax Libery 500W), with only the VGA plugged and having the same result (artifacts). I tried to ask around and got told that if the CPU was bad, it would behave much worse.
If you have any idea what this might be, I'd appreciate some tips (excuse me for my bad grammar, but I'm hungry!)
Cheers.
I recently upgraded to an Intel Core 2 DUO LGA775 E6400 2.13GHz / Gigabyte 965P DS3 / 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C5 DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (bundle from OC.UK), together with a Leadtek GeForce 7950 GT 512MB GDDR3. After I assemble the parts, I switched on the PC and some strange things happen.
This is what happens:
- I switch on the PC after a couple of hours being switched off.
- The ram checking screen of the video card shows, all ok till now.
- Now, this is the strange thing:
- The screen where the list of hdd/dvd together with RAM and CPU information is shown, however, with some sort of artifacts on the screen. The artifacts are like "matrix" style, just dots instead of numbers.
- If from this stage I go to the bios, artifacts disappear, however, if I reboot the computer instantly, the artifacts will reappear in the same screen.
- If I stay a bit longer (say a minute) in the bios, the artifacts will disappear and computer will boot normally.
- After this screen, the next screen (the one where that "table" shows up before the windows XP loading bar) appears, with the same artifacts.
- Afterwards, thw windows xp loading screen shows up, with the same artifacts. After 2-3 seconds, a blue screen shows up and computer reboots instantly.
The problem with all this is that it's not done constantly in all screens, and that after "some time", the artifacts will disappear completely and the computer will work like a bliss.
I tried my VGA on another computer, and work perfectly. I also tried another PSU (Enermax Libery 500W), with only the VGA plugged and having the same result (artifacts). I tried to ask around and got told that if the CPU was bad, it would behave much worse.
If you have any idea what this might be, I'd appreciate some tips (excuse me for my bad grammar, but I'm hungry!)
Cheers.
