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CrayZXP
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Posted: 9th May 2008 04:46
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Today I went on a desktop PC to watch a youtube video, and while I was watching it, the computer froze, and strange green dots appeared! I reboot, and when the computer starts back up, all these letters are jumping around the screen, and when it gets to Windows...a bunch of short lines start flickering about after the loading bar...and the computer stops working! I've tried a lot of things; safe mode, checking the monitor, checking the power...nothing works.

I hope someone can help me with this problem, because this is my father's computer!

I've attached a picture showing what's wrong.

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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Posted: 9th May 2008 04:48
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looks cool
maybe you have the matrix virus


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flickenmaste
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Posted: 9th May 2008 05:10
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i would get that virus??lol

have u virus checked ur 'puter?
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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 9th May 2008 06:27
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It looks to me like a hardware problem with your video card.


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Benjamin
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Posted: 11th May 2008 13:11
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Perhaps the graphics card is fried.

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IanM
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Posted: 11th May 2008 13:40
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Try reseating your graphics card and making sure that the video cable is properly connected. Also if you've removed that cable recently, check it to make sure you haven't bent/broken any pins.

If that doesn't fix it, then get yourself a new card.

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Sasuke
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Posted: 11th May 2008 13:46 Edited at: 11th May 2008 13:48
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This does sound like the GPU's fried due to overheating, or its not seated into the slot properly. Try reseating the card or you could uninstall the drivers and card then reinstall them again. Thats to say you can still get into Windows in safe mode.

Edit, you beat me to it IanM.

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El Goorf
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Posted: 12th May 2008 18:38
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agreed - sounds and looks like your gpu's dead

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tha_rami
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Posted: 12th May 2008 19:00
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Yup, videocard problem. Had the same thing, but I had purple lines .


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 12th May 2008 19:01
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I get this sometimes, only they scroll. I fix it with a good kick.


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5Louiz
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Posted: 12th May 2008 20:35
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Scary. I had a similar problem two days ago in my old PC. It happened mainly in 3D programs and when subtly maximized images. Random pixels got stuck, becoming red, green or blue, and many little coloured squares of sixteen pixels or more appeared. I pressed the VGA plug an the dots disappeared. It always happened again, so it could not be contact problem. The old card was dying right in front of me. But it had five or six years of age. Today it costs an watermelon.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 12th May 2008 21:15
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Make sure the heatsinks are free of dust bunnies it might be overheating. Other than that get the latest drivers and directx. If they don't match you can get some strange effects.

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Posted: 13th May 2008 01:01
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crap like this used to happen on my old gf5200. the card lives on in an old p3-800 that my daughter is using for kids web games etc. If I run a dx game on that thing it will flake out eventually but is usually corrected with a reboot. its just one of them things.

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