What's wrong with this picture? Literally. BIOS looks corrupted...

[TechPriestAcolyte]

Ok, so after waiting a couple minutes for my system to book, which I thought was never going to, it boots up to a distorted Gigabyte splash screen, I hit delete to get into the BIOS and it looks like this:

So... Yeah, not sure what the issue is. Here's the build:

https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/MySavedWishDetail.aspx?ID=12502348

I think it may be the video card. At the moment I have a old CRT plugged into it via the VGA adapter.

When I use an LCD via the DVI port with no adapter, I get NOTHING...

Thoughts?

 

[WR2]

If the BIOS were corrupt there would be no possible way for you to have gotten that far.
Can you borrow a known, good PCI-e video card?

 

[TechPriestAcolyte]

It was the damn video card! Damn Visiontek 4870 card that wasn't what was pictured on Newegg in the first place.

Went and bought a 4850 from Best Buy to test it, DVI and everything worked right off the bat, system powered up faster and got going quicker too, which was odd.

Now to test Newegg's customer service on Monday

 

[WR2]

Thats good news.

You don't have to wait till Monday. You can start an online RAM now.

Look on the bottom of the page @ http://www.newegg.com/ under RMA request.
They'll even have your recent hardware orders listed.