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 May 9 2005, 01:50 AM
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I just bought a sexy new system including just about the top of the line parts, after installing all the individual parts, Windows, drivers and all, everything worked fine. After a few days, my video output was garbage looking, all sorts of horizontal blinds and garbage numbers and colors were output to the screen, even in BIOS!! After a manual jump to reset the BIOS, still garbage, I even reformatted the drives and reinstalled Windows and the drivers (updated), I got the same ugly screen. My thought right now is that my video card is damaged somehow but before I ship it back to ATI, I'd like to know if there is anything else I can do to make sure that this is a video card problem or ... is it something else that I could fix myself. Thanks a ton Lance |
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May 9 2005, 10:39 AM
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 Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,592 Joined: 3-September 04 From: S.E. Idaho, USA Member No.: 2,427 |
Hi, Lance, and welcome to Bleeping Computer.
That sounds suspiciously like a video card gone bad to me. Do you have a spare video card lying around that you can test with? |
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May 9 2005, 01:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 18,813 |
hey Herk,
Yeah, I think I'm going to try to do a switch and see if that is what is causing this problem. Thanks for the reply |
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May 11 2005, 10:59 AM
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Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,592 Joined: 3-September 04 From: S.E. Idaho, USA Member No.: 2,427 |
You're welcome. Let us know how it works out for you.
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