A8N-sli deluxe + screen corruption problem

[Craigomatic]

Hello,

I just put together my new system, turned on the power only to see to my dismay the boot screen show up looking terribly corrupted. Hitting del gets me into the bios, but the screen is unreadable due to the afore mentioned corruption. If i let windows load, straight away it comes up with a blue screen error (which i also cannot read).

I have plugged all the power cables in, tried swapping the sli selector card, tried the vid card in the other pci-express slot and still the same problem remains.

Has this happened to anyone else??? Is my vid card broken? My motherboard?

My System:
amd 64 3500+
antec neopower 480
1gb dual channel geil ram
leadtek px6600gt tdh extreme

Thanks for your time.

 

[walkure]

Is it a new or old monitor? On my friend's old monitor everything basically looked pink all the time, no matter what. Short of that...

Are the DVI or D-sub cable connected all the way (on both video card and monitor)? Is the video card all the way down in the slot (btw you're supposed to use the blue PCI-E slot if using only 1 video card -- the one closer to the CPU slot).

I just went through a semi-nightmare with getting any video display at all, which you could check out at the following thread, however my problem turned out to be a bad stick of RAM, and not the video card as I has suspected. Actually I don't think it would help you much, but perhaps just following some of the precautions mentioned by myself and others could help...
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=1507614&enterthread=y

 

[FastEddie]

Could be power related. You are using a dual rail psu that's only giving you 18a on the main 12v rail and 15a on the second 12v rail.

 

[Craigomatic]

its a newish monitor, am def its not the prob though, as im just upgrading parts from my old comp which was working fine with it.

Ive linked pics in chronological order of the problem:

Picture 1: boot screen
Picture 2: screen after boot screen
Picture 3: BSOD

vid card is in the blue slot, and is secured quite well. Also the ram i have i tested in my previous computer and it worked fine.

 

[FastEddie]

Could be a bad card.