WTF: Help Me!

[jcovercash]

I did not know where else to put this, I might try Motherboards, dunna. When I boot up my PC, after the Mem. count When it shows the drives that you have hooked up, Ie cd, cdrw, hard drive. When my pc comes to this point it has all kinds off colored lettters and blocks scrolling acros the screen, I will try to get a pic of it. Does anyone know how to fix this, Here is my setup

T-Bird 1.2 @1.2 Currently
ASUS A7A 266
256 Meg of Crucial DDR,
3D prophet II Mx 64 MB
Network card
Sound card
Maxtor Hd
CD
CDRW
Floppy

It jsut started doing this recently. Help me.

 

[TunaBoo]

Might be overheating, or a messed up gfx card.

 

[jcovercash]

nah it aint over heating 93 farienthae no i cant spell

 

[dkozloski]

What you are seeing is something getting into the video memory that shouldn't be there. Pull your memory out and clean the contacts with a pencil eraser. Reseat your cards. While you're doing that I'll try to remember what I did about this problem three weeks ago.

 

[jcovercash]

ok cool thanks man. I will tyr that tommrow mornign

 

[dkozloski]

I checked with the other guys and when we had this problem a couple of weeks ago it was because somebody was fooling around with memory timings. Resetting to defaults fixed it.

 

[jcovercash]

Nah, I havent been dpoing that, anybody else that can help me.

 

[CoolBreezeOne]

AMDMan12Ghz,

What troubleshooting solutions have you tried??

Does the system continue to boot correctly after the colored letters or does it freeze on you?

Well let me put myself in your shoes. If I had a system misbehaving like that I would try the following:

1. Set all bios setting to defaults (check to see if it worked)
2. Take away all pci,isa,and drives out of the motherboard re-attach all drives and video card only. (check to see if it worked)
3. Replace video card with an old reliable card (check to see if it worked)
4. Replace memory module with another module running on another machine (check to see if it worked)
5. Replace CPU with another AMD processor (check to see if it worked).
6. If nothing above worked most likely the problem is in your motherboard. (Check warranty on motherboard and send it back. Receive new motherboard and that should work!)

 

[ToBeMe]

Pull the battery for about 15min. before you go to extremes......ussually works unless you have hardware problems and at least you'll eliminate the obvious first!

 

[jcovercash]

ok i will try that.

 

[jcovercash]

Thanks ToBeMe that worked