Hey,
I'm over at my cousins house working on his Dell XPS Desktop and when you boot it up there is serious pixeling lines going down the screen of different colors such as green, blue, and grey. You barely can get to desktop without Bluescreening. I am guessing there is a problem with the video cards which are 2 9800gt's I believe.
Here is a Picture.
[url]https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Z1TCD8K6GKzNagle4g0Xh9sZdj8-J94NH0ySPmJHfS8?feat=directlink[/url]
Let me know if there is any problems viewing the photo.
Anyone have suggestion to what I could do?
Thanks,
Jake
I had the exact same problem (same videocard same pixelation), I had to buy a new video card.
Ok well i'm going to reformat this thing and go on from there.. I'm hoping its a driver issue but I'm not sure.
EDIT: Ok I removed one card and now there is no more pixelating and I reformatted.. and im getting this boot error.
File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000034
9800 GT pixelating and doing wierd on an XPS.
Let me guess: The computer is from begin 2007?
If so, I got the same card, somewhat the same problems, Just replace the card.
The drivers are in Windows, and seeing as the pixelating occurs before Windows has even started, you can rule that out.
Your cards probably busted, get a new one.
Also the error you're getting is because of either
1. The Windows Boot Manager isn't in the BCD store.
2. The BCD file on your partition is damaged.
You can attempt to repair the BCD store by doing the following:
Insert your Windows Vista disc, change the BIOS Boot Priority to start from the Optical Drive, reboot and then press any button when you're prompted to.
After this, select your language and yadda yadda, then click on "Repair your computer", and select the OS you want to repair. You'll then see a dialog box, click on "Startup Repair", and reboot the PC.
His videocard is broken, if the text is corrupted at post.
I had the exact same video card with the exact same problem, i think that's a flaw with that model of videocard.
Thanks for the help, It turned out that there was a bad card but it is all fixed now and the boot problem was bad on my behalf because I think when I reformatted I shut it off when it was booting windows
which I shouldnt have done but all fixed now thanks.
[QUOTE=Naelstrom;31033360]His videocard is broken, if the text is corrupted at post.
I had the exact same video card with the exact same problem, i think that's a flaw with that model of videocard.[/QUOTE]
I know. I was talking about his BCD error, which has nothing to do with the GPU.
Oh right sorry, i didn't notice he responded with an alt.
Yep, I asked around and the 8800 and the 9800 did have a problem with the fans, causing them to not cool optimally, and thus overheat your GPU.
Just wanted to get that out here.
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