Post by kayevcee on Oct 10, 2011 14:42:34 GMT
My desktop has been playing up ever since I got back from the States. About once a day it would crash to a blue screen and restart, for no apparent reason. It was annoying, but just an inconvenience.
Yesterday I heard a loud pop from somewhere behind my PC. Made me jump. I looked around but nothing seemed to be wrong so I continued with my business. That night I popped in a DVD and after a few minutes the video stalled. Ctrl-alt-del recovered it eventually, but it crashed again and now when I start up there are all these weird graphical glitches.
Lines and boxes flickering across the screen. Now it can't get past the disk checker* prior to Windows login. I tried the monitor with my laptop and it works fine. I think the graphics card is buggered, but I'm not positive it couldn't be the motherboard or something else.
Has anybody encountered these problems before? How did you tackle it? I don't mind buying another whatever component it is that's on the way out- this rig's a few years old now. I'd just like to narrow down which part it could be before splashing the cash.
-Nick
Yesterday I heard a loud pop from somewhere behind my PC. Made me jump. I looked around but nothing seemed to be wrong so I continued with my business. That night I popped in a DVD and after a few minutes the video stalled. Ctrl-alt-del recovered it eventually, but it crashed again and now when I start up there are all these weird graphical glitches.
Lines and boxes flickering across the screen. Now it can't get past the disk checker* prior to Windows login. I tried the monitor with my laptop and it works fine. I think the graphics card is buggered, but I'm not positive it couldn't be the motherboard or something else.
Has anybody encountered these problems before? How did you tackle it? I don't mind buying another whatever component it is that's on the way out- this rig's a few years old now. I'd just like to narrow down which part it could be before splashing the cash.
-Nick
