Hi guys
I need some help with diagnosing a problem which has started occuring totally out of the blue with my computer. My pc was running fine today for hours without any problems but when i had a hour break for dinner i left it running, when i got back i tried waking it up from power saving mode as the monitor turned off, my music was still running. But after moving the mouse and monitor powering up no picture appeared. Tried ctrl atl del to try and an some application that may have caused the black screen but no joy. I then had a quick 1-2 second flash of the desktop and it was all mangled up with artifacts and blank windows the type you get when you click something and windows hangs.
I then tried to reset my system, as the bios screen where all the drives are detected popped up after the reset i noticed the writing was slighly screwed up with few pixes within it missing, as that screen disappeared i then had a full screen of purple artifacting all over, that screen is usually just black so i got a bit worried. When the Windows xp logo and loading bar appeared, there were more artifacts and vertical lines with again pixels missing within the lettering, the loading bar then froze for about 20s and it just hanged it then slowly got going but it wasn't normal, it was all too slow. Then the when the welcome screen was meant to appear i just had a black screen, i could still hear the music and my hdd was showing that things were loading as normal. So it reached the desktop after few more seconds of blackness but my screen stayed black, i then had constant flashes of my desktop for about 2 s and it kept flashing between black screen and desktop. All off the menus were screwed up and things were artifacted.
Then my monitor went black and kept turning on and off (you know that bit when it gets a signal and you hear a dingggg sound and when it turns off you hear the static??? well that kept happening continuously.
I tried going into safe mod but the safemode selection screen is also scred so much that things are unreadable on it so i had to guess what to press to get into safemode but no joy, in same mode it did the same thing as it normal mode??? flashes with black screen, freezing, artifacts and it was just dead. See pictures from safe mode what my screen looked like when i loaded things up. (had to take it with my camera)
It looks like it is either the graphics card or motherboard.
Just to mention, few weeks ago my psu exploded, the psu seemed to give too much voltage to my graphics card as i had severe overheating problems and the card was running at 145C at times due to the faulty psu which may have damaged the card which gave up today..
Anyone else experienc
I need some help with diagnosing a problem which has started occuring totally out of the blue with my computer. My pc was running fine today for hours without any problems but when i had a hour break for dinner i left it running, when i got back i tried waking it up from power saving mode as the monitor turned off, my music was still running. But after moving the mouse and monitor powering up no picture appeared. Tried ctrl atl del to try and an some application that may have caused the black screen but no joy. I then had a quick 1-2 second flash of the desktop and it was all mangled up with artifacts and blank windows the type you get when you click something and windows hangs.
I then tried to reset my system, as the bios screen where all the drives are detected popped up after the reset i noticed the writing was slighly screwed up with few pixes within it missing, as that screen disappeared i then had a full screen of purple artifacting all over, that screen is usually just black so i got a bit worried. When the Windows xp logo and loading bar appeared, there were more artifacts and vertical lines with again pixels missing within the lettering, the loading bar then froze for about 20s and it just hanged it then slowly got going but it wasn't normal, it was all too slow. Then the when the welcome screen was meant to appear i just had a black screen, i could still hear the music and my hdd was showing that things were loading as normal. So it reached the desktop after few more seconds of blackness but my screen stayed black, i then had constant flashes of my desktop for about 2 s and it kept flashing between black screen and desktop. All off the menus were screwed up and things were artifacted.
Then my monitor went black and kept turning on and off (you know that bit when it gets a signal and you hear a dingggg sound and when it turns off you hear the static??? well that kept happening continuously.
I tried going into safe mod but the safemode selection screen is also scred so much that things are unreadable on it so i had to guess what to press to get into safemode but no joy, in same mode it did the same thing as it normal mode??? flashes with black screen, freezing, artifacts and it was just dead. See pictures from safe mode what my screen looked like when i loaded things up. (had to take it with my camera)
It looks like it is either the graphics card or motherboard.
Just to mention, few weeks ago my psu exploded, the psu seemed to give too much voltage to my graphics card as i had severe overheating problems and the card was running at 145C at times due to the faulty psu which may have damaged the card which gave up today..
Anyone else experienc
i am on my laptop at the moment.
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