For two days now, my computer has been acting up, starting rather tame and quickly going from bad to worse.
It started two days ago with my monitor losing signal and forcing me to turn off the computer and turn it back on again to resolve it.
It happend twice that day along with a bsod (which I didn't see as I wasn't at my computer at the time), but beyond that it worked fine.
Yesterday however, it all went to hell as about 20 minutes after booting my computer, my screen suddenly got scrambled and windows locked up completly, forcing me to do a hard reset. Tthe problem was still present during boot, and immediatly crashed again when windows had loaded(the actual booting and loading worked fine).
After a while, the problem was gone again (turned the computer off for about 15 minutes) but returned roughly 10/15 minutes later.
Eventually the problem wouldbe present the moment I switched on my computer, even if it had been off for a while, but it still seemed to be kinda random and unpredictable.
Right now it seems to be working again flawlessly(1 hour as of this post), but I have no idea for how long(it still failed to work earlier today).
The problem:
What appears to be horizontal lines accross my screen, displacing everything a bit, making things unreadable.
Eventually I managed to boot into windows, and it had switched off aero. Checking the hardware manager I noticed a conflict with my videocard which caused windows to disable it. The error code was 43.
Running like this, windows didn't crash. Same with safemode.
Here are two images of what it looked like :
Image 1
Image 2
It looked the same in safemode.
If it happend in windows(regular windows, with drivers loaded), it looked somewhat more extreme.
Things I tried:
- Switch out some of my ram modules to see if maybe it was a memory problem, but it happend regardless of which ones I used.
- Monitor temperature to see if something was overheating, but everything was fine(gpu around 60, cpu around 40).
- Booting to safemode, which didn't crash, but the screen was still more or less unreadable.
- See if it was my monitor by checking the menu of my monitor, but it looked fine when the rest of the screen didn't.
- Completly clean my computer (did that about two weeks ago)
I don't know if this is normal, but the effect did not show up a on a screenshot I took when I safemode and then sent to the laptop i am using right now.
Finally, my specs:
Windows 7
Intel core2duo E6750 @ 2.66ghz
4gb ddr2 pc6400 ram
xfx Geforce 8800GT 512mb
Asus p5k-e motherboard
600 watt Zalman psu (zm600-hp)
Latest drivers for everything.
I have had this system for a little over 2 years now without any issues so this kinda sucks.
Normally I wouldn't ask these things, but since I am on a tight budget I want to be very sure I am replacing the right thing, if something needs replacing at all.
Thanks in advance.
It started two days ago with my monitor losing signal and forcing me to turn off the computer and turn it back on again to resolve it.
It happend twice that day along with a bsod (which I didn't see as I wasn't at my computer at the time), but beyond that it worked fine.
Yesterday however, it all went to hell as about 20 minutes after booting my computer, my screen suddenly got scrambled and windows locked up completly, forcing me to do a hard reset. Tthe problem was still present during boot, and immediatly crashed again when windows had loaded(the actual booting and loading worked fine).
After a while, the problem was gone again (turned the computer off for about 15 minutes) but returned roughly 10/15 minutes later.
Eventually the problem wouldbe present the moment I switched on my computer, even if it had been off for a while, but it still seemed to be kinda random and unpredictable.
Right now it seems to be working again flawlessly(1 hour as of this post), but I have no idea for how long(it still failed to work earlier today).
The problem:
What appears to be horizontal lines accross my screen, displacing everything a bit, making things unreadable.
Eventually I managed to boot into windows, and it had switched off aero. Checking the hardware manager I noticed a conflict with my videocard which caused windows to disable it. The error code was 43.
Running like this, windows didn't crash. Same with safemode.
Here are two images of what it looked like :
Image 1
Image 2
It looked the same in safemode.
If it happend in windows(regular windows, with drivers loaded), it looked somewhat more extreme.
Things I tried:
- Switch out some of my ram modules to see if maybe it was a memory problem, but it happend regardless of which ones I used.
- Monitor temperature to see if something was overheating, but everything was fine(gpu around 60, cpu around 40).
- Booting to safemode, which didn't crash, but the screen was still more or less unreadable.
- See if it was my monitor by checking the menu of my monitor, but it looked fine when the rest of the screen didn't.
- Completly clean my computer (did that about two weeks ago)
I don't know if this is normal, but the effect did not show up a on a screenshot I took when I safemode and then sent to the laptop i am using right now.
Finally, my specs:
Windows 7
Intel core2duo E6750 @ 2.66ghz
4gb ddr2 pc6400 ram
xfx Geforce 8800GT 512mb
Asus p5k-e motherboard
600 watt Zalman psu (zm600-hp)
Latest drivers for everything.
I have had this system for a little over 2 years now without any issues so this kinda sucks.
Normally I wouldn't ask these things, but since I am on a tight budget I want to be very sure I am replacing the right thing, if something needs replacing at all.
Thanks in advance.