BIOS Menu gets scrambled

[lonelypauly]

Anyone remember old arcade video games from the 80's when they first started up or rebooted the screen went through a test pattern with everything all scrambled on the screen?

Well, that's what appears to happen on my system. At first I thought it might be the cpu temp. It's idling at 48C, which seems high for a Phenom II X4 940, but the max is 62C on this CPU.

The scrambling doesn't happen right away. It takes some time. The computer never shuts off or reboots. After 10 or 20 minutes the BIOS screen just gets scrambled and characters on the screen just keep moving at random, so the screen never really freezes.

I have uploaded a picture:

http://imgur.com/a/vK6h2

I am using the onboard video. I tried DVI and VGA. Haven't tried the onboard HDMI yet. I suppose I could put a video card in and see what happens.
Any Ideas?

 

[BasicallyNuclear]

It definitely looks like the on-board graphics card is broken or begenning to die. Do you have a VGA/DVI Extention?

Most BIOS's will automatically detect and default to an add-on graphics card. If you have a spare one (or just buy one) you should be able to plug it in and move your monitor to it.

If that doesnt work... hard to tell from your picture if the words are readable. Can you make out the BIOS text at all? If so you should be able to switch it to the add-on card.

 

[lonelypauly]

Thank you for the response. The BIOS is stable and readable for a good 10 or 15 minutes, then it starts getting crazy. I think you are right, but before I buy a video card, I just realized that all DIMM slots are populated with mixed RAM, so maybe just maybe there is something going on there, I will need to test that. However, I have a feeling I just may need to get a video card.

 

[BasicallyNuclear]

Thank you for the response. The BIOS is stable and readable for a good 10 or 15 minutes, then it starts getting crazy. I think you are right, but before I buy a video card, I just realized that all DIMM slots are populated with mixed RAM, so maybe just maybe there is something going on there, I will need to test that. However, I have a feeling I just may need to get a video card.

About the ram... Different Sizes like 16, 32, 8 gb or diffrent brands? Try one stick at a time, one could be defective.

 

[lonelypauly]

It turned out to be the mixed RAM or that all 4 slots were taken. Either way, it's working fine now. Thanks for your help!

 

[BasicallyNuclear]

It turned out to be the mixed RAM or that all 4 slots were taken. Either way, it's working fine now. Thanks for your help!

No problem, thanks for asking.