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| Thread ID: 88660 | 2008-04-04 08:15:00 | CPU fault?? | pctek (84) | Press F1 |
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| 656017 | 2008-04-04 08:15:00 | Started it up - screwed up looking ascii - definite ascii characters - all over the screen and there it stayed until PC was rebooted. Next, it gets to Windows, where at a random length of time it displays an interesting pattern. The white lines - if you look really closely almost resembles text. www.imagef1.net.nz Its not a graphics problem. Its not RAM. That leaves CPU or board. I ran a couple of CPU stress tests, it did the pattern thing almost straight away the first time, the seciond time it ran for ages, (well a while anyway) going through the various tests and didn't. Its not overheating either. Its 1 day old. Brand new parts. CPU??? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 656018 | 2008-04-04 08:27:00 | Have you tried swapping the CPU with another known good one? | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 656019 | 2008-04-04 08:33:00 | No spare. | pctek (84) | ||
| 656020 | 2008-04-04 08:39:00 | What CPU is it? I've seen my TV do something like that, but not a PC. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 656021 | 2008-04-04 08:50:00 | AM2 Athlon64 x2 4200+ Asus M2N-MX SE board - used both tons of times before. The ascii thing was interesting, last time I saw that - 7 years ago, my colleague had forgotten to connect a CPU fan and it was cooking itself.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 656022 | 2008-04-04 09:06:00 | Wow a rare case that happened to me. It was the videocard for me, all that was a failed graphic card. | JUST INSANE (6682) | ||
| 656023 | 2008-04-04 09:14:00 | Its got onboard graphics, could be except: I plugged it back in to see if I could get the ascii thing again, this time I got: www.imagef1.net.nz On boot - no Post screen, just this. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 656024 | 2008-04-04 09:17:00 | Sounds like the prob here (www.vistax64.com) Someone said Grub (Linux) may do what youre seeing if it was ever installed You dont see this at some stage do you? GRLDR Resetting the boot drive... |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 656025 | 2008-04-04 09:18:00 | Its got onboard graphics, could be except: I plugged it back in to see if I could get the ascii thing again, this time I got: www.imagef1.net.nz On boot - no Post screen, just this. MS is trying to tell you not to pirate! :lol: |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 656026 | 2008-04-04 09:38:00 | Sounds like the prob here (www.vistax64.com) No. The ascii thing was almost like it was trying to display the Post text but instead the entire screen was black with white lettering, random letters, numbers, cahracters etc all over. With line spacing. 2j^&$%RVmdlksd9475b*^T KJHGS%&#@V D28HSH$@830-94 v <LJWE64343rvtgfer That type of thing..... |
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