I consider myself pretty tech savy and have built/upgraded numerous PC's in the past, however, I have NEVER come across this...
So I built myself a second PC with older, used PC parts. The only parts I brought new was the PSU, case and SSD's. Just wanted to keep the build under £350 as its for work only (Although I'm using it now to write this xD)
Well today I changed the CPU from an i5-2400, to an i5-3570K, just for an extra little boost. This was also pre-owned from CEX. This PC is barely a week old, and as mentioned, so far has only been used for the whole purpose I built it for. I say this because there is no way I would have gotten a virus this soon, and its also worth noting that I have done a full scan regardless and my anti-virus didn't find anything.
So this is where its weird! After booting up the PC after the CPU upgrade, a picture appeared on my monitor BEFORE the windows loading screen.
Its a picture of a new born baby sitting on a lap in a santa outfit. As far as I know, viruses can't infect hardware (except certain crashers which overload the CPU/GPU - though thats not really a virus). I've also never heard of a picture being saved onto a CPU either!?
I turned off my PC and rebooted and it came up again! I am completely lost as too how this has happened.
Is it a windows thing?
Is it a stock image linked to every i5-3570K?
Something to do with my motherboard?
I have no clue! And would like to remove this picture if I can.
Any idea on what is happening and how I can get rid of the image? Unfortunately I don't have a compatible Motherboard to test the new CPU in right now, but when the the i5-2400, is in the motherboard, this doesn't happen.
So I built myself a second PC with older, used PC parts. The only parts I brought new was the PSU, case and SSD's. Just wanted to keep the build under £350 as its for work only (Although I'm using it now to write this xD)
Well today I changed the CPU from an i5-2400, to an i5-3570K, just for an extra little boost. This was also pre-owned from CEX. This PC is barely a week old, and as mentioned, so far has only been used for the whole purpose I built it for. I say this because there is no way I would have gotten a virus this soon, and its also worth noting that I have done a full scan regardless and my anti-virus didn't find anything.
So this is where its weird! After booting up the PC after the CPU upgrade, a picture appeared on my monitor BEFORE the windows loading screen.
Its a picture of a new born baby sitting on a lap in a santa outfit. As far as I know, viruses can't infect hardware (except certain crashers which overload the CPU/GPU - though thats not really a virus). I've also never heard of a picture being saved onto a CPU either!?
I turned off my PC and rebooted and it came up again! I am completely lost as too how this has happened.
Is it a windows thing?
Is it a stock image linked to every i5-3570K?
Something to do with my motherboard?
I have no clue! And would like to remove this picture if I can.
Any idea on what is happening and how I can get rid of the image? Unfortunately I don't have a compatible Motherboard to test the new CPU in right now, but when the the i5-2400, is in the motherboard, this doesn't happen.