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Major Problem with new system

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drpootums

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I build my new system (in sig) and it works really nice. I played some games with a friend and was really impressed. I set it up in my room with my old crappy monitor and it booted up fine. I first went to the video settings and noticed that all the resolutions were available. I figured "hey, i thought it only showed the ones my monitor was capable of, o well" so i put it from 10x7 to 12x10. At first my monitor went black, but after a minute the screen came back.

I figured it reverted back, so i followed that up by 3dmark 03 (i got 10,900 the last time, and i love watching the mother nature video). It was loading the first test and it froze. Half of the screen went black.
I waited for a while and pressed the reset button on my computer. It booted up, but there were blocks all over the screen.

It went to windows, but the monitor would flicker on and off every 7 seconds or so. The screen went from a fuzzy green/black to a light blue/dark blue combination.

I continued to turn on/off manually a few times, hard reset it a couple of times, and even went into safe mode 2 times, but nothing worked.

I dont know wat the problem is!!! I dont think there is a problem with the temps.

Any help at all is apreciated!
 
If you have another monitor you could try, then first go into Safe Mode and go through the motions of setting the resolution & refresh rate to 800 x 600 @ 60Hz, confirm it as if it happened, then shut down, plug in the other monitor and see if the display comes up normal.
 
did you change refresh rates as well?

try a spare vga card that you have lying round somewhere. If it is an older one, then go easy on it, and
for the future

IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT
 
i tried 2 monitors, both had the same problems.

I have them currently at 800x600 at 60hz and the problems still happened.
 
i tried it again and it started up fine. When it got to the desktop i was excited so i ran downstairs to tell my parents that it was finally working again. My brother was over and he went up with me to check it out, and boom, it was all blocky again.

I'm starting to think it's the powersupply, but i'm not sure...
 
oh yes, and to add to my last post, whenever i right click it reboots! And if i wait a while it reboots by itself.
 
Well, two things - how old is this monitor? If the monitor isn't PnP, or cannot communicate via DDC with the video card (bad cable?), then the Windows driver may default to allowing all resolution modes that the card can support, since it doesn't know about the monitor's limits. You might need to manually download and install an .INF file from your monitor mfg.

Second, "Mother Nature" is one of the most stressful tests in 3DMark, if it suddenly freezes/fails/artifacts, then it could be a power/heat problem. The fact that it artifacted after a reboot at the BIOS screen could be a similar issue too. (I have that too, occasionally, with my MSI KT4V-L and Radeon 9200 AGP 8x.)

What kind of case cooling, and what kind and rating of PSU do you have in that system?
 
ok, this is wierd. Half of the time it boots up fine, but still freezes in 03. The other half it just starts up with green artifacts. It doesnt reboot anymore like it did.

I have the TT Tsunami. my intake 120mm fan was DOA, but i have the Leadtek video card which idles around 35 C and under load gets up to 55 C, with a max of 60 C. I have a Zalman 7000a on my cpu, and my PSU is a Fortron 500w Blue Storm.

Oh yes, if i havent already mentioned it, there are blocks on the bios screen, and lines all over when it shows the windows loading screen, so i'm quite sure it's not software.

I really think this a case of a bad video card, but it just seems wierd that it would start all of a sudden...
 
Problems with hardware nearly always just come out of the blue. But as you've said yourself it really sounds like PSU or videocard. You don't have a video card from your old system? (I know you don't but I just had to ask)
 
i sold my old video card when my old comp died 6 months ago...

I'm gunna try to get a video card to test it out from a friend, but i dont know when that will be. I was really looking forward to getting this up and running before Christmas...
 
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