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Post by M's » Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:38 am

Logged onto my desktop this morning, did my normal routine. Comics, Ville, Facebook.
Went and ate breakfast, came back and my screen was covered in vertical stripes.

shut down using the start menu, restarted and stripes appeared again. Attempted to log in, straight to BSOD. Let it run it's course then was able to get in using safemode with networking.
But still have the stripes.
I replaced the processor not long ago.

Here is a link to the information gained from MSINFO32
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=23383

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Post by Tilgasse » Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:51 am

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Re: Please advise me as what to do.

Post by Peahats » Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:56 am

Yeah, sounds like GPU is the issue, do you have another GPU you could test it with or does your motherboard have onboard graphics?

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Post by Boss Llama » Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:22 am

Definite GPU fail. Needs a new video card. :-/

Probably want to minimize usage of the system until a new card is in it. I had one of these before where both the GPU and the mobo slot itself got fried. Not sure which caused which, but that was an expensive and time-consuming troubleshoot/replace, and avoiding such a thing would be good.
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Post by TheCarpe » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:06 am

Have you heard any loud pops lately? My computer did something identical a few years back, turned out a few of the capacitors had blown out on my GPU. Since the capacitors essentially hold and store the electrical energy to run the card, it caused it to just kind of slowly bleed out, so to speak, till it died.
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Post by M's » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:16 am

No strange sounds, or spare cards. Swapped the GPU to another slot and same thing.
But on the bright side I get to order me a new computer :dance:

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Re: Please advise me as what to do.

Post by Peahats » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:32 am

<eVa>mlite wrote:No strange sounds, or spare cards. Swapped the GPU to another slot and same thing.
But on the bright side I get to order me a new computer :dance:
Have you tried removing the GPU and plugging your video cable straight into your motherboard? (assuming you have onboard graphics)

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Post by M's » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:50 am

No onboard graphics options, but what would be the best of the 2 evils here?

http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-8700/pd?oc ... d=xps-8700
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http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-x51- ... are-x51-r2

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Post by Perfect Villain » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:09 pm

1st is pretty terrible it has a GT card which arent even decent(gaming wise) and the alienware might be good but its possibly overpriced
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Re: Please advise me as what to do.

Post by Boss Llama » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:26 pm

Unless the rest of the system is out of date (and if you just updated the CPU, I don't imagine it is...) you could spend half the money and get a very nice graphics card that will keep you going in to the future.
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Post by M's » Fri Jun 27, 2014 1:28 pm

I found a 4800 series for about 30.00 on ebay. Hope it fixes me up.

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