Hi Guys,
Need to pick your brains with a problem I'm having with my pc.
Its an old pc (approx 3 years). Last Sunday morning, I switched it on, and some of the screen was distorted, a few lines of pixels vertically along the
screen would be a different colour than normal. For example, on the XP bootup screen, the green pane of the windows logo has 4 blue lines travelling the
length of it.
As the XP login screen is about to appear, the monitor switches off and won't come back on. The pc continues to boot as normal (as far as I can tell).
I booted into the bios, and it too also had some pixels (going vertically also) distorted.
I booted into safe mode, and it booted fine without problem.
I reinstalled the video card drivers, reset all my options and rebooted, same problem occurring.
A friend advised that it was the graphics card that had packed in, to which
I initially agreed.
I borrowed his copy of WinXPE bootable cd, it too booted fine, and further reinforced my thoughts that the video card had broke.
I booted up the pc yesterday, and it booted up perfectly normally, no pixel
distortion, windows booted fine and was running fine.
Until I tried to watch an avi that is. I got about 12 mins into an avi and t
he monitor flicked on and off a few times. It worked again and then about 18
mins into the avi it flicked again then switched itself off and now I'm back to where I was.
The system is also allowing me to boot into VGA mode when I go into the XP boot options (Res 640v480 x 8 bit depth)
I tried another monitor with the video card this morning, and the same problem exists.
Does the problem lie with the video card, the monitor, or with some software
or the bios?
The hardware is as follows:
- GeForce 4600Ti
- Asrock K7NF2 Motherboard
- Hansol 19" CRT Monitor.
I'm still quite convinced that the video card is at fault, but why would it
start up again perfectly well?
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Need to pick your brains with a problem I'm having with my pc.
Its an old pc (approx 3 years). Last Sunday morning, I switched it on, and some of the screen was distorted, a few lines of pixels vertically along the
screen would be a different colour than normal. For example, on the XP bootup screen, the green pane of the windows logo has 4 blue lines travelling the
length of it.
As the XP login screen is about to appear, the monitor switches off and won't come back on. The pc continues to boot as normal (as far as I can tell).
I booted into the bios, and it too also had some pixels (going vertically also) distorted.
I booted into safe mode, and it booted fine without problem.
I reinstalled the video card drivers, reset all my options and rebooted, same problem occurring.
A friend advised that it was the graphics card that had packed in, to which
I initially agreed.
I borrowed his copy of WinXPE bootable cd, it too booted fine, and further reinforced my thoughts that the video card had broke.
I booted up the pc yesterday, and it booted up perfectly normally, no pixel
distortion, windows booted fine and was running fine.
Until I tried to watch an avi that is. I got about 12 mins into an avi and t
he monitor flicked on and off a few times. It worked again and then about 18
mins into the avi it flicked again then switched itself off and now I'm back to where I was.
The system is also allowing me to boot into VGA mode when I go into the XP boot options (Res 640v480 x 8 bit depth)
I tried another monitor with the video card this morning, and the same problem exists.
Does the problem lie with the video card, the monitor, or with some software
or the bios?
The hardware is as follows:
- GeForce 4600Ti
- Asrock K7NF2 Motherboard
- Hansol 19" CRT Monitor.
I'm still quite convinced that the video card is at fault, but why would it
start up again perfectly well?
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
