So recently some weird stuff has been happening to my 1.5 year old computer :ohdear:
I was playing BF:BC2 when it just locked up and wouldn't respond, then the monitor went to sleep as apparently it wasn't getting a signal. This never happened before. I restarted it, but when I got into widows it said I didn't have networking drivers installed and couldn't access the internet. I decided to restart again and everything was fine. Then as I was cleaning registry and installing windows updates and clearing space for a defrag (meh just in case) it crashed, and the monitor wasn't getting any signal.
I restart and all the startup screens had stuff on them (vertical lines across the screen everywhere, motherboard logo/picture had black dots on it, no windows logo and green lines this time) and windows didn't start. Next restart the resolution was blurry and it asked me to do windows recovery so I tried that twice, and then everything went completely back to normal.
Although sometimes when playing BF:BC2 it repeats the first incident (lock up and no monitor signal, then no connection after restart). I don't know if it's this game in particular, as I haven't played any others since it started.
Now nothing bad happens other than when I'm in the game.
Checked the temperatures and are all normal
So any idea as to what is causing this and what I should do to fix/prevent this?
Specs if they're necessary
Windows 7 64 bit
AMD Athlon 64 Dual core
2 gigs ram
Nvidia geforce 9800 GT
Update drivers, make sure things aren't overheating, that kind of stuff. Sometimes it's the simple things that can screw up a computer.
Alright, an update. The lines on startup are happening again. I'd think a better way to describe them is artifacts. I cannot start windows normally, the only success I've had is safe mode, and it's not giving me an option to go into safe mode again. Only normal startup and windows recovery.
The problem isn't going away this time. The artifacts are appearing on POST, windows loading, even BIOS.
My best guess is that it is something wrong with my 9800GT, and I hope it is because I have XFX double lifetime warranty.
It [b]really[/b] sounds like a GPU problem. Do you have an onboard graphics card? If so, try using that...
Yep just took out my GPU and back to Integrated Motherboard graphics. Everything is normal now. Time to go asking XFX how to work their warranty.
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