I have an Athlon 1.4, Epox 8K7A, 512MB DDR, Geforce4 Ti4400.
One morning, I turn on my computer, and right from the BIOS post, instead of all white text, I see a rainbow of colors. I'm not talking about random colors all over the screen - I'm talking about the actual text is no longer white - they're all different colors. When it starts booting into Windows 2000, it halts with an error that is unreadable - because there are garbage characters all over the screen. I turn off the computer, and cold boot it again...this time, instead of colors, I see garbage characters. I go into setup. Garbage characters again. Now, I've rebooted my computer numerous times, sometimes I get colors, sometimes I get garbage characters, and sometimes it looks normal; but every time, it halts seconds into the Windows 2000 boot, always with a mix of garbage text and actual text - unreadable.
I did nothing to the computer the night before - installed no new hardware or software, didn't physically move the computer - nothing.
Two days later, my computer is still like this. My 1st thought was that the OS is corrupt - maybe a boot or system file corrupted. But then, why the jumbled characters during post? I also went into setup and checked the vitals - CPU temp, voltages, etc. Everything was ok.
Any ideas?
One morning, I turn on my computer, and right from the BIOS post, instead of all white text, I see a rainbow of colors. I'm not talking about random colors all over the screen - I'm talking about the actual text is no longer white - they're all different colors. When it starts booting into Windows 2000, it halts with an error that is unreadable - because there are garbage characters all over the screen. I turn off the computer, and cold boot it again...this time, instead of colors, I see garbage characters. I go into setup. Garbage characters again. Now, I've rebooted my computer numerous times, sometimes I get colors, sometimes I get garbage characters, and sometimes it looks normal; but every time, it halts seconds into the Windows 2000 boot, always with a mix of garbage text and actual text - unreadable.
I did nothing to the computer the night before - installed no new hardware or software, didn't physically move the computer - nothing.
Two days later, my computer is still like this. My 1st thought was that the OS is corrupt - maybe a boot or system file corrupted. But then, why the jumbled characters during post? I also went into setup and checked the vitals - CPU temp, voltages, etc. Everything was ok.
Any ideas?
