Very odd problem with my PC

wazza300 · 20 Jul 2014 at 13:35

have you loaded optimised defaults in the bios?

you could have a faulty cpu idk,ive never seen that happen before

a long cmos clear might help,battery left out a good 30 minutes then try

Andayle · 20 Jul 2014 at 13:39

yeah that was the first thing I tried, Left the battery out for a good hour whilst I was mowing the lawn and loaded optimised defaults.

Looks like it's time to purchase some new kit :eek:

wazza300 · 20 Jul 2014 at 13:41

You can rma the chip if its less than 3 years old

It could be the mb also not detecting it correctly? Idk

Andayle · 20 Jul 2014 at 13:42

Really tempted by this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-013-AS
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-013-SF
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-403-CS

I'm not going to be overclocking and already have a decent cooler, is that RAM OK for someone who's not overclocking?

Andayle · 20 Jul 2014 at 13:45

wazza300 said:
You can rma the chip if its less than 3 years old

It could be the mb also not detecting it correctly? Idk

Yeah I could do, I might just give it to my nephew, he has no PC of his own and I could also leave the ram under clocked to keep it stable for now. Also is would help justify new stuff lol

wazza300 · 20 Jul 2014 at 13:45

yeah but the colour green? :eek:

the teamgroup ram is good/value

Andayle · 20 Jul 2014 at 13:52

Something like this?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-052-TG&tool=3

Slightly cheaper and a little faster, not sure about the gold colour but it is better than green I guess lol.

wazza300 · 20 Jul 2014 at 14:13

yh that's ok,they sell the red but its £10 more

the orange is ok

Andayle · 20 Jul 2014 at 14:32

Ok that's all ordered.

Cheers for the help guys

MonkeyBasher · 20 Jul 2014 at 22:40

A bit late now.

One cause of this (specifically with web browsers) is hardware accelerated 2D graphics. Its been a bug in Firefox for a very long time. (You can toggle it in the browser settings).

With it enabled I see artifacts.
With it disabled I see no artifacts but there is tearing/lag when i scroll web pages.

It manifests itself as a stretched checkerboard type effect and can vanish when I scroll up/down.
I only noticed it a few years ago when stopped using IE(not affected) and swapped to Firefox.

Andayle · 21 Jul 2014 at 09:55

Hi MonkeyBasher

Yeah I blamed firefox at first but I've switched to chrome and that gives me the artefacts and a whole nest of other problems like ssl auth on some webpages. Also my CPU being detected as completely the wrong one seems to point to a hardware fault somewhere.