I'd figure I could try my luck running a seemingly unsolvable problem across you guys.
I just shipped my computer via UPS to Kansas, and when I received the tower, some of the cables had been disconnected. My case is huge, so I had a ton of slipper cables and other extensions floating around, making it a bit of a confusing mess. To be short, I had no idea where to plug some of these cables in, and I had to consult someone else to re-find their places. He also removed quite a few splitter cables and moved things around.
Now, I have Windows 8.1 and a brand new monitor. When I boot up, I see the loading Windows logo with the rotating dots, and then the screen goes black. The display shuts off momentarily after this (this is normal, I think. iirc my Windows 7 setup did this too), but suddenly the screen turns pitch black, but is filled with little blue pixels. They cover the screen in long lines.
The catch is, I couldn't find a fix. Nothing on Google. Still can't. But when I reinstalled Windows 8.1, it booted fine. The display was crap quality (1024x762 resolution on a 1980x1024 capable monitor), but that was to be expected. However, I installed the Windows updates, and as soon as it restarted and applied the updates, now it boots to the blue pixel filled screen again.
What is going on? I can't find any info, and I'm not sure why it's doing this. Were the cables attaching improperly, or is the monitor bad?
GPU is Nvidia GTX 460 SE, running Windows 8.1 on an Intel i5 3.3 Ghz quad core.
(copied from Fast Threads)
It's generally not a great idea to ship a fully built computer around on the back of a truck where it gets tossed around, jarred, dropped, etc. It's even less of a good idea to not get such a system insured for things such as this.
If cables were disconnected when you got the machine, it's safe to say it had some pretty severe abuse in UPS transport.
The only thing I can recommend is trying to remove and reseat the graphics card, RAM and the CPU to make sure they're connected properly. Don't forget to add more thermal paste on the CPU before putting the heatsink back on.
It was wrapped in like 8 layers of bubble wrap, and UPS had the insurance on it. However, since the computer is not broken in any discernible way, I can't claim they owe me the value of my tower.
The CPU has been checked out and is fine, the GPU has been reseated multiple times. I don't think this would be a RAM issue, but I can check.
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