TheVille

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

https://www.google.com/search?q=gpu+fai ... =935&dpr=1


GPU Failing is a good candiate..

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

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.

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.

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

<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

Have you tried removing the GPU and plugging your video cable straight into your motherboard? (assuming you have onboard graphics)

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
or
http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-x51- ... are-x51-r2

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

Unless the rest of the system is out of date (and if you just updated the CPU, I don't imagine it is...)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.

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