My system recently has begun having problems, and I would greatly appreciate any and all help folks could offer.
Basically, I've been running my system without issue since I made it about a year and a half ago or so. Then suddenly, the other day it seemed to freeze while I was away from it and came back. I reboot it, and it seemed to freeze again during the boot. However, upon hitting a few keys, I realized that actually it *had* boot successfully, but the graphics had just stopped updating. In other words, I could type things and use the mouse and keyboard, and the computer would make the sound effects, open the programs that it normally would, etc., the screen just wasn?t getting updated at all.
I tried rebooting a couple more times, and the exact same thing pretty much every time. Within a few seconds of booting, the screen would just stop updating. A couple times the computer wouldn?t seem to want to boot at all, but for the most part this was the issue. This had nothing to do with my OS or anything, as it did the same even when I tried to bring up the CMOS (just stop updating the graphics).
I opened up the case, and tried blowing out any dust in the computer and tried reseating the graphics card and the cable connecting it to the monitor, both to no avail. Every time I reboot the computer now, though, the percentage of times that it just hang during boot and not properly boot was increasing compared to the times when it would do the ?boot but stop updating graphics? thing.
I then even tried swapping out the graphics card with a spare I had, again to no avail. Now, however, the computer won?t boot the vast majority of the time. According to the diagnostic LEDs, it?s hanging between ?CPU detected? and ?DRAM detected? now.
Some final info on the machine:
- motherboard: DFI LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D
- graphics card: ATI Radeon x850
I can give all the other specs as needed?
Any advice anyone has would be most appreciated. I really hope I don?t have to replace anything, as taking the system apart would be a huge pain. But it sounds like *something* on the motherboard is not working right? Or is it something else?
Thanks again in advance?
Basically, I've been running my system without issue since I made it about a year and a half ago or so. Then suddenly, the other day it seemed to freeze while I was away from it and came back. I reboot it, and it seemed to freeze again during the boot. However, upon hitting a few keys, I realized that actually it *had* boot successfully, but the graphics had just stopped updating. In other words, I could type things and use the mouse and keyboard, and the computer would make the sound effects, open the programs that it normally would, etc., the screen just wasn?t getting updated at all.
I tried rebooting a couple more times, and the exact same thing pretty much every time. Within a few seconds of booting, the screen would just stop updating. A couple times the computer wouldn?t seem to want to boot at all, but for the most part this was the issue. This had nothing to do with my OS or anything, as it did the same even when I tried to bring up the CMOS (just stop updating the graphics).
I opened up the case, and tried blowing out any dust in the computer and tried reseating the graphics card and the cable connecting it to the monitor, both to no avail. Every time I reboot the computer now, though, the percentage of times that it just hang during boot and not properly boot was increasing compared to the times when it would do the ?boot but stop updating graphics? thing.
I then even tried swapping out the graphics card with a spare I had, again to no avail. Now, however, the computer won?t boot the vast majority of the time. According to the diagnostic LEDs, it?s hanging between ?CPU detected? and ?DRAM detected? now.
Some final info on the machine:
- motherboard: DFI LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D
- graphics card: ATI Radeon x850
I can give all the other specs as needed?
Any advice anyone has would be most appreciated. I really hope I don?t have to replace anything, as taking the system apart would be a huge pain. But it sounds like *something* on the motherboard is not working right? Or is it something else?
Thanks again in advance?
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