Hi all. I had my computer shipped from California to Mass for college. When I opened the box, the case was bent. I had left all the cards in there, as well as the harddrives and the CPU + RAM. I know that is silly but it is too late now... 
Anyhow, the case was bent, it still is and when I opened it up, the CPU was out of its socket. I have a P3 600 with an Iwill motherboard. BD100+ the CPU sits pretty tightly in its socket. It was dangling around in the case! The Box I shipped the computer in was the case the case came in, a little styrofoam on 2 sides, top and bottom of the case. The whole thing would go in there so that the styrofoam was on the left and the right in the box. I have a Radeon LE and when I plugged it in to see if it posts, I was glad to see that it did. However, the post screen has a colored logo on it as well as white text on black. When the RAM was testing, the screen flickered and had green vertical lines I guess for every refresh. When I went into the BIOS, everything was fine, no bad artifacts no lines no nothing. Black and white works perfectly. Mixed (Color and B&W) is all fu*ked up. I can see stuff, the card is working, I even could play counterstrike with Direct 3d I think @ 1024 x 800 or whatever. It just looked like CS in a disco. Flashing colors, blue and yellow on the walls. What I want to know is what is broken? The motherboard or the graphics card? Oh I have PC133 Cruicial ram in there 2 X 256 MB = 512 MB. I have a maxtor UDMA 100 controller card, soundblaster live value, linksys 10/100TX NIC, some ghetto modem in the machine. a 40 GB maxtor, 7200 rpm UDMA 5, a 25 GB maxtor 7200 rpm, UDMA 4. running windows 2000. I downloaded the newest drivers and it did not fix the problem. It does it even during the post. I disconnected the card, looked at it but could not see any physical damage. Not on the Motherboard either. The computer is running fine, its stable, no crash. I tried just pluggin in the video card but no difference. I wish i had a different card so i could try it out. I got the radeon from newegg about 2,3 weeks ago I believe. do you have any idea how to fix this or do you think its impossible? I think I will be able to get my hands on a different card soon so I can test out what seems to be the problem. Should i contact newegg first? Please help! I think this will give me epilectic seisures if I don't do something quick!
TIA
Jun
Anyhow, the case was bent, it still is and when I opened it up, the CPU was out of its socket. I have a P3 600 with an Iwill motherboard. BD100+ the CPU sits pretty tightly in its socket. It was dangling around in the case! The Box I shipped the computer in was the case the case came in, a little styrofoam on 2 sides, top and bottom of the case. The whole thing would go in there so that the styrofoam was on the left and the right in the box. I have a Radeon LE and when I plugged it in to see if it posts, I was glad to see that it did. However, the post screen has a colored logo on it as well as white text on black. When the RAM was testing, the screen flickered and had green vertical lines I guess for every refresh. When I went into the BIOS, everything was fine, no bad artifacts no lines no nothing. Black and white works perfectly. Mixed (Color and B&W) is all fu*ked up. I can see stuff, the card is working, I even could play counterstrike with Direct 3d I think @ 1024 x 800 or whatever. It just looked like CS in a disco. Flashing colors, blue and yellow on the walls. What I want to know is what is broken? The motherboard or the graphics card? Oh I have PC133 Cruicial ram in there 2 X 256 MB = 512 MB. I have a maxtor UDMA 100 controller card, soundblaster live value, linksys 10/100TX NIC, some ghetto modem in the machine. a 40 GB maxtor, 7200 rpm UDMA 5, a 25 GB maxtor 7200 rpm, UDMA 4. running windows 2000. I downloaded the newest drivers and it did not fix the problem. It does it even during the post. I disconnected the card, looked at it but could not see any physical damage. Not on the Motherboard either. The computer is running fine, its stable, no crash. I tried just pluggin in the video card but no difference. I wish i had a different card so i could try it out. I got the radeon from newegg about 2,3 weeks ago I believe. do you have any idea how to fix this or do you think its impossible? I think I will be able to get my hands on a different card soon so I can test out what seems to be the problem. Should i contact newegg first? Please help! I think this will give me epilectic seisures if I don't do something quick!TIA
Jun
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