PC Failure
Posted: 24 Feb 2010, 07:35
My computer died yesterday, on Monday it flashed up corrupt a few times and a few times it crashed completely. Anyway, yesterday I loaded up TF2 to the main screen and it flashed up corrupt again but this time froze and then the monitor went blank and went to power saving mode (no input to it). Now when I boot my computer up it comes up with Pink vertical lines across the whole width of the screen but at regular intervals, and on the boot mode list (Safe Mode, Safe mode with this and that or this, normal start) there are blocks of pink between the lines, the lines are not solid all the way down but dashed the same pattern for each line. When XP tries to boot normally it shows the XP logo without the pink lines but they are basically black cos they remove some of the logo. Even on the Bios screen this happens. As soon as XP boots to the welcome screen, the monitor flashes what looks like Matrix code but accross the whole screen then once again the monitor turns off completely. I can boot into Safe Mode which is 640x480, it works but the pink lines are still there. And cos its safe mode I cant run GPU-Z or CPU-Z or CPUID Hardware Monitor (this runs but only sees the HDDs) due to the drivers not being able to be loaded by XP (cos its safe mode). I do have the old video card I replaced with my current 7600GT, I will reseat the 7600 first and see if it is the problem which I doubt it is, then I will put the 6200 back in and see if my problems goes away. Hopefully it will, but I have been looking at new hardware anyway: Intel Core 2 Duo E7400, ATI 5750 1Gb Dx11 (so I'm future proof enough to go to Windows 7), all I need next is a decent 775 Mobo and a new PSU. Do not link me to newegg they don't ship internationally.