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Hello,
I am trying to diagnose a problem. For several months now at start up a blink
of thousands of colors appears on the screen and the screen goes black on me at
some random time. The only way to get it back is to power off and restart the
machine.
Here is what I have tried so far:
1.- I upgraded the graphics card drivers, same problem.
2.- Unpluged the monitor from the graphics card and pluged the TV to the graphics
card through an HDMI cable.
Same problem, at start up a blink of thousands of colors and at some random
time the screen goes blank, or black should I say.
So I thought: «its the grapphics card».
3.- To make sure, I removed the graphics card and replaced it by a very old card
I have lying around. Same problem, the screen goes blank on me, but this
time no zillion colors at start up.
Then I thought «it's not the graphics card».
Seems to me if it would be the graphics card that is at fault, it would work
fine with the old card. On the other hand if it would be the monitor it would
work fine on the TV with the original card? Then, what is it? Both, the
monitor (it's very old) AND the graphics card?? Or could it be the mother
board?
Is there a way to find out for sure BEFORE one starts buying replacement parts
that could or could not solve the problem?
Here are the specs of my machinre:
System: Host: FX-8350 Kernel: 5.4.0-37-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce
4.14.2 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial:
140323665203773 BIOS: American Megatrends
v: 2202 date: 12/12/2013
CPU: Topology: 8-Core model: AMD FX-8350 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB
Speed: 1401 MHz min/max: 1400/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1397 2:
1404 3: 1403 4: 1400 5: 1402 6: 1400 7: 1404
8: 1393
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD
7770/8760 / R7 250X] driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: ati,radeon unloaded:
fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~75Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD VERDE (DRM 2.50.0 5.4.0-37-generic LLVM 9.0.1)
v: 4.5 Mesa 20.0.4
Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia driver:
snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD
7000 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-37-generic
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 40:16:7e:b2:c2:14
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 176.50 GiB (15.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT256MX100SSD1 size: 238.47 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1CH162 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 23.03 GiB used: 11.40 GiB (49.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 16.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 28 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 218 Uptime: 15m Memory: 15.54 GiB used: 1.13 GiB (7.3%)
Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38
Thank you,
Gérald Jean
I am trying to diagnose a problem. For several months now at start up a blink
of thousands of colors appears on the screen and the screen goes black on me at
some random time. The only way to get it back is to power off and restart the
machine.
Here is what I have tried so far:
1.- I upgraded the graphics card drivers, same problem.
2.- Unpluged the monitor from the graphics card and pluged the TV to the graphics
card through an HDMI cable.
Same problem, at start up a blink of thousands of colors and at some random
time the screen goes blank, or black should I say.
So I thought: «its the grapphics card».
3.- To make sure, I removed the graphics card and replaced it by a very old card
I have lying around. Same problem, the screen goes blank on me, but this
time no zillion colors at start up.
Then I thought «it's not the graphics card».
Seems to me if it would be the graphics card that is at fault, it would work
fine with the old card. On the other hand if it would be the monitor it would
work fine on the TV with the original card? Then, what is it? Both, the
monitor (it's very old) AND the graphics card?? Or could it be the mother
board?
Is there a way to find out for sure BEFORE one starts buying replacement parts
that could or could not solve the problem?
Here are the specs of my machinre:
System: Host: FX-8350 Kernel: 5.4.0-37-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce
4.14.2 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial:
140323665203773 BIOS: American Megatrends
v: 2202 date: 12/12/2013
CPU: Topology: 8-Core model: AMD FX-8350 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB
Speed: 1401 MHz min/max: 1400/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1397 2:
1404 3: 1403 4: 1400 5: 1402 6: 1400 7: 1404
8: 1393
Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde XT [Radeon HD
7770/8760 / R7 250X] driver: radeon v: kernel
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: ati,radeon unloaded:
fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1024x768~75Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD VERDE (DRM 2.50.0 5.4.0-37-generic LLVM 9.0.1)
v: 4.5 Mesa 20.0.4
Audio: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia driver:
snd_hda_intel
Device-2: AMD Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD
7000 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-37-generic
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 40:16:7e:b2:c2:14
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 176.50 GiB (15.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT256MX100SSD1 size: 238.47 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1CH162 size: 931.51 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 23.03 GiB used: 11.40 GiB (49.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 16.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 28 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 218 Uptime: 15m Memory: 15.54 GiB used: 1.13 GiB (7.3%)
Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38
Thank you,
Gérald Jean
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