PC problems
I been having a string of computer problems that is not letting me do my work. I was curious if any one could help me out ...
I just recently fixed the main issue with my computer, which turned out to be memory problems *not booting up properly* and now i am getting these red stripes on my monitors.
I updated the graphics card to see if that would work but alas nothing ... any ideas on what it can be?
I just recently fixed the main issue with my computer, which turned out to be memory problems *not booting up properly* and now i am getting these red stripes on my monitors.
I updated the graphics card to see if that would work but alas nothing ... any ideas on what it can be?
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Wow, how clever...
And yea, I'd look at what could be the possible problems, figure out whats easy to test, and start eliminating them. So probably test out a different monitor cable, if that doesn't fix it try out a different monitor, then check video card.
I'm not usually such a stickler for details, but when it comes to troubleshooting it's helpful.
If you do get red lines across multiple monitors it sounds very unlikely it has anything to do with the cables or the monitors themselves. If you updated the drivers for your card, and you still get the same thing, it sounds more hardware related and I would follow kite's recommendation and try popping in a different card.
I hope you were being sarcastic.
Quick and Easy: Computer was shutting off while playing L4D (hasn't ever had a problem with any other game til now), and would shut off seconds into boot afterwards. Pulled computer apart, put back together, runs fine now, except no signal to the monitor.
Recently have been having problems with my desktop, my power house render horse (needed for mapping, cause my laptop craps out easily). It started when I got drivers for my monitor, or from setting up the unofficial L4D SDK. I got the drivers for it again, cause its been displaying in an off yellow for awhile and it has been annoying me when working on it.
So, cut to the chase. I was playing L4D one evening, checking out the levels to get ideas for my map and size/item placement, when a boomer puked on me. My computer shutdown then, completely dead. So I started it up again, turned on speedfan and ran L4D again. I checked speedfan to see my temps, which were all running normal. And when I alt-tabbed back into L4D it ran for about 10 minutes and then the whole thing shut down again. I decided to just leave it for the night, do homework, and told my girlfriend in the morning to notify if it shuts down again. She started it up the next day, and it wouldn't even get past the windows log in screen. Same happens to me when I get back home and test it.
I pulled all the power cords from inside, reconnected everything, and ran it. Still was shutting off instantly, but it would still display on the monitor. Once again, I pulled everything apart, checked it and put it back together again. NOW it will run and stay on, except the LED lights on my mother board that show error codes aren't acting like they usually do. They just showed -- instead of 7F which is how my computer has started up for awhile, meaning I have to hit F1 for user prompt to continue the boot. So I'm not sure if this is how it normally goes without user prompt or what. Also now, nothing displays on the monitor. I'm using the monitor as second to my laptop right now so it works.
Quick and Easy: Computer was shutting off while playing L4D (hasn't ever had a problem with any other game til now), and would shut off seconds into boot afterward. Pulled computer apart, put back together, runs fine now, except no signal to the monitor.
Specs:
motherboard: nForce 680i SE SLI
gfx card: Geforce 880GTS 640 MB
processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Processor
powersupply: OCZ GameXStream 850-watt
memory: corsair xms2 2x1GB DDR2
monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 216bw
I really hope it isn't the gfx card, but any insight into what the problem may be would be helpful. Thanks mates.
My old computer had a similar glitch (at least in behavior). The motherboard "overheat feature" would sometimes revert back the cpu speed to default clock. Which was odd because i never overclocked that thing and the computer never rebooted by itself.
When this happened, the comp would try to boot but nothing happened, no signal on screen, i could hear hard drives & fans but it just hanged there, the hard drive led remained on, it wasnt booting windows either.
The "fix" was quite simple...turn off the power supply I/O switch for a few seconds, turn it back on and then it would boot. I doubt this will help you tho.
I dont know how to fix your problem, but my graphics card also broke last week. I had a 8800 GTX. The initial symptoms were graphic driver crashing frequently, so I figured it was just a driver problem but after I tried updating to latest drivers and reverting back to some old ones the problem persisted and then eventually the screen would get spammed by all these green and pink dots/patterns until it crashed.
Anyway long story short;
I contacted the seller, they told me to contact the manufacturer (BFG), and after I did that I got it replaced within 5 days. Since the 8800 GTX is no longer in production they gave me a free upgrade to the GTX 260 - every cloud has a silver lining