Hey folks, I'm hoping somebody can help me troubleshoot this or perhaps has seen it before.
There are a bunch of horizontal green lines that show when the "Windows Starting" screen comes up (see image below). On cold boot there is about 75% chance of getting it. On a warm boot (ie restart) it happens maybe 25% of the time.
After I get this screen I will get one of the following:
-Most of the time (but not always) after the green lines show up the computer will reboot itself, go all the way into windows where it shows me the popup that says something along the lines of "windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown" where i can either close it or check for an online solution (which of course, does nothing).
-Sometimes it will reboot and show me the DOS-like screen that windows gives me the choice to start windows normally or in safe mode, starting normally will go straight into windows no problem.
-sometimes it will reboot and show me the DOS-like screen that gives me the choice to run windows repair
-Sometimes it just sits there and i have to push reset button or hold power button till it shuts off, then restart.
This is a new build, ASRock Z77 Extreme4 w/ Core i5 3470k, 16GB GSkill RAM (2x8gb), Samsung 840 120gb ssd, Zotac Nvidia 650ti 2GB, Corsair CX500, all in a HAF 932 case. It is completely stable once it's in windows, surviving hours of prime95 and 10runs of IBT (all tests including max).
My first thought was bad video card due to the lines and hard crash (drivers)... but i see no other symptoms. I thought it might be RAM since it was when it starts loading windows, but .... i dunno. I thought it might be power because it only seems to happen during boot (peak power draw as stuff starts up), but it survived IBT and prime so.... i dunno.
Anybody have any ideas where to start other than just randomly replacing parts?
http://imgur.com/cKb4pAZ
There are a bunch of horizontal green lines that show when the "Windows Starting" screen comes up (see image below). On cold boot there is about 75% chance of getting it. On a warm boot (ie restart) it happens maybe 25% of the time.
After I get this screen I will get one of the following:
-Most of the time (but not always) after the green lines show up the computer will reboot itself, go all the way into windows where it shows me the popup that says something along the lines of "windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown" where i can either close it or check for an online solution (which of course, does nothing).
-Sometimes it will reboot and show me the DOS-like screen that windows gives me the choice to start windows normally or in safe mode, starting normally will go straight into windows no problem.
-sometimes it will reboot and show me the DOS-like screen that gives me the choice to run windows repair
-Sometimes it just sits there and i have to push reset button or hold power button till it shuts off, then restart.
This is a new build, ASRock Z77 Extreme4 w/ Core i5 3470k, 16GB GSkill RAM (2x8gb), Samsung 840 120gb ssd, Zotac Nvidia 650ti 2GB, Corsair CX500, all in a HAF 932 case. It is completely stable once it's in windows, surviving hours of prime95 and 10runs of IBT (all tests including max).
My first thought was bad video card due to the lines and hard crash (drivers)... but i see no other symptoms. I thought it might be RAM since it was when it starts loading windows, but .... i dunno. I thought it might be power because it only seems to happen during boot (peak power draw as stuff starts up), but it survived IBT and prime so.... i dunno.
Anybody have any ideas where to start other than just randomly replacing parts?
http://imgur.com/cKb4pAZ
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