mayokittens
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i have a system i built with an
asus m2n-sli
amd 9850 quad core
8 gigs of OCZ ram (4 x 2 gigs)
2 WD caviar black hd 200 gig in raid for xp
2 WD caviar black hd 750 gig in raid for vista 64
silverstone strider 850W PSU
and a 9800 evga
no OCing and more than enough cooling
last week my GF was playing WOW on it and it froze, the colors got all acid trippy, and it blue screened. unfortunately she didnt write the error message down and it restarted on its own.
she turned it off and told me about it when i got home. i checked event veiwer and told me there was an error, 116 i believe, that indicated a potential display driver problem (yes, i was too stupid to write this error number down). i updated the display driver from the manufacturer's website, then rebooted.
this time i saw $ symbols all over the screen before the bios splash screen. it got to the loading windows screen, then reset itself. it now resets itself everytime it gets that far. i cannot hit F8 for safe mode, it continues on to the standard loading windows screen and resets. if i go into bios the $ are there as well and where the land on a word or number, they change the value displayed there to something else.
i am leaning towards this being a failing video card, first off because its the only thing out of warranty, but am willing to check anything else suggested.
asus m2n-sli
amd 9850 quad core
8 gigs of OCZ ram (4 x 2 gigs)
2 WD caviar black hd 200 gig in raid for xp
2 WD caviar black hd 750 gig in raid for vista 64
silverstone strider 850W PSU
and a 9800 evga
no OCing and more than enough cooling
last week my GF was playing WOW on it and it froze, the colors got all acid trippy, and it blue screened. unfortunately she didnt write the error message down and it restarted on its own.
she turned it off and told me about it when i got home. i checked event veiwer and told me there was an error, 116 i believe, that indicated a potential display driver problem (yes, i was too stupid to write this error number down). i updated the display driver from the manufacturer's website, then rebooted.
this time i saw $ symbols all over the screen before the bios splash screen. it got to the loading windows screen, then reset itself. it now resets itself everytime it gets that far. i cannot hit F8 for safe mode, it continues on to the standard loading windows screen and resets. if i go into bios the $ are there as well and where the land on a word or number, they change the value displayed there to something else.
i am leaning towards this being a failing video card, first off because its the only thing out of warranty, but am willing to check anything else suggested.
