Just built a computer not sure what the issue is

[mikerollingsolo]

Just built a computer last night around this http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...4KlhQuxgf78HhA video card, thought it was a good deal. Now here's the issue, boot up was fine installation of windows 7 was went fine. At this point there were NO artifacts whatsoever. But all of a sudden it would start up, and he would enter in his password and once it restarted after windows 7 was installed, there are artifacts all over the place. The issue is this, maybe a driver issue? Since we can't even boot to desktop to install the mobo and video card drivers yet. Or a faulty video card? But there were no artifacts during installation so this is strange indeed. So here's another issue in addition to artifacts, once windows 7 boots and my friend enters his password it'll hang in a black screen and restart itself. Not sure waht to do, suggestions?

 

[Vdubchaos]

Specs of the system? Is he running SSD?

What Power Supply is he using???

 

[Stuka87]

Does the motherboard/cpu have integrated graphics? If so, try booting with the Radeon removed.

 

[mikerollingsolo]

We just switched to onboard graphics and everything is alright, but that doesn't explain why it was working during the windows setup... It's a asus mobo...i gotta check but g skill ram 4 gigs, not SSD its just a regular 3.0gb/s 500 hitachi hd and a 650 watt OCZ psu we're gonna try and put in the video card after all the mobo drivers are installed, hopefully it works it was a good deal.

 

[mikerollingsolo]

The new video card works but in the middle of installing the drivers from the CD it reboots

 

[Attic]

1) Try booting into safe mode. Press F8 repeatedly during boot-up.

2) Don't use drivers from the CD, get the latest drivers from the manufacturers website.

 

[mrjoltcola]

We just switched to onboard graphics and everything is alright, but that doesn't explain why it was working during the windows setup...

Actually I think it does explain it.

Windows setup runs a standard SVGA driver, not the vendor specific driver.

So once you get booted in, the ATI driver is in play, and so are higher resolutions and even 3D effects.

So I'd say you have a driver problem or a bad card. Bad card is most likely, in my experience, because it may not show up at lower res with standard driver.

I have half a dozen identical quadro cards, and one began artifacting and the PC would freeze once a week, and when the card was replaced with identical, problem went away.