I'm working on my brother-in-law's computer for him because he has been having some problems lately. Before I knew of his problems, he bought a new audio card because he thought that would fix the problem of the games not putting out any sound. This apparentely worked for a week or two, but then all of a sudden the video became flaky, to the point of the computer starting up very slow, and the welcome screen not even showing up. In safe mode it boots just fine. This led me to believe that it was a driver problem. So I uninstalled the video/sound drivers and while I was at it, updated it to SP2 and the rest of the latest updates. I reinstalled the sound/video drivers and booted up, everything worked just fine, the computer booted in a timely manner, the screens displayed just fine, and all the features of the video and sound cards were working correctly. I gave him the computer back, he played with it for about a week, and it is doing the same thing again. Here is where my question comes in, could this be a faulty video card, or is it something bigger than that ie, motherboard, RAM, cpu? I don't really feel like just buying parts and putting them in hit or miss because I "think" that it will fix the problem. I have tried one of my old videocards, which worked fine, and then magically when I put in his videocard, the problem goes away again. I don't really want to redo the entire computer because one of the many drivers and/or service packs/updates was installed in the wrong order, but if someone thinks that it will fix the problem in the end, I will definitely give it a shot.
Sorry for the book, thanks in advance for helpful replies.
Darrick
Sorry for the book, thanks in advance for helpful replies.
Darrick
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