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Odd hardlocking issue
HappylilElf
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I've been having an issue with my PC lately.
During the boot of windows I started getting a strange repeating pattern of periods all over the screen. It would then give me a CPU overtemp warning. Upon rebooting ang checking in the BIOS my CPU was running 103 celcius. Oh shit.
So I cracked open the case and checked it out an sure enough my heatsink+fan had worked itself loose. I retightened everything and booted it back up. The CPU temp in the BIOS is holding steady at around 60 celcius and when I get into windows and fire up everest to check GPU temp it's running at around 64 celcius. From what I've been able to gather these are both well within normal range.
The thing is the repeating pattern of periods are still there and it's still hardlocking. However safemode seems to work perfectly fine if I boot into that.
This is where I really hope someone tells me my PC didn't cook itself due to my heatsink+fan being shitty and coming loose
Card is an Nvidia 9800GTX 512MB
During the boot of windows I started getting a strange repeating pattern of periods all over the screen. It would then give me a CPU overtemp warning. Upon rebooting ang checking in the BIOS my CPU was running 103 celcius. Oh shit.
So I cracked open the case and checked it out an sure enough my heatsink+fan had worked itself loose. I retightened everything and booted it back up. The CPU temp in the BIOS is holding steady at around 60 celcius and when I get into windows and fire up everest to check GPU temp it's running at around 64 celcius. From what I've been able to gather these are both well within normal range.
The thing is the repeating pattern of periods are still there and it's still hardlocking. However safemode seems to work perfectly fine if I boot into that.
This is where I really hope someone tells me my PC didn't cook itself due to my heatsink+fan being shitty and coming loose
Card is an Nvidia 9800GTX 512MB
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I'm fairly sure I have a couple CDRs laying around somewhere and I can have a friend bring his laptop over to whip one up tomorrow though.
However it's definately not the CPU overheating that is causing the continued issue. My video card has started overheating for some reason. I think the fan in the card is faltering and it's out of warrenty so yeah, new video card time I guess.
On the plus side a new 9800GTX will be $150 less than what I paid for my current one. Of course it's still $130
Everything was fine until I installed Nvidia drivers for the video card. Once I did that it started hardlocking again and wouldn't even get past the login screen. After uninstalling the drivers it boots up fine.
If I'm way off base here lemme know, otherwise I guess it's time to go shopping for a new card tomorrow I suppose.
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It's probably a GPU issue at this point, I guess, but it may not be a hardware issue (hopefully).
Windows update actually can't find drivers for it. Which doesn't really shock me as I've never had it be able to find drivers for some reason.
What card is it?
I'll download those later today and give them a try (with my fingers crossed so hard bones may break :P )
Exact same thing. Hardlocks and graphical gitches before windows even finishes loading with drivers installed. Able to get into windows fine without them.
Time to go shopping?
Then I'm fresh outta ideas, yes.
I imagine the drivers are pushing the card harder than the default XP ones?