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Computer displays test bars randomly.

droggendroggen Registered User regular
edited December 2008 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
Ok this is just odd.

I go to turn on my compuetr tonight and it refuses to display anything.
Powers on and i can hear it boot into windows.

Figuring it might be the DVI-D cable i connect a VGA Cable with a DVI Adapter and it displays an image.

When i boot into windows everything appears odd.

I can see Some "Snow" and now randomly it seems to display a Color bar type test poattern ,then a white screen then a grey screen then a blck screen.

I cannot tell if it's my monitor or my video card.

Screen is a Acer p191w

Card is a Gigabyte 3870.

Hopefully someone can make sense of this.

Thanks in advance

droggen on

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  • blakfeldblakfeld Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Odd indeed. The problem only happens when you boot into Windows, or is it doing strange things before you even get there?

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  • droggendroggen Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Yea. it does display the "snow" effect before i boot into windows. Looks like i have to RMA my videocard.
    Thanks for the help.

    droggen on
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