I'm not sure what's wrong to be honest. Out of the blue my display started to go crazy until my machine locks up.
It would start off with "fake" dead pixels appearing on the screen followed shortly after by what I can only describe as a rainbow matrix of death. Similar to when you try and set your refresh rate too high on a CRT and it goes nuts, except I'm using an LCD. It just scrolls random colors vertically and obviously can't be good. Then the machine locks up.
So far this happened twice and after it occured the first time it happened about 20 seconds after rebooting into windows the second time. Also the windows XP loading screen was slightly distorted looking too but the POST data was fine.
I have 2 LCDs hooked up and both of them had the same messed up effect.
After it happened initially I took out the card and cleaned the fan, etc.. The fan is definitely working.
While cleaning the fan I noticed 4 of the capacitors are actually cracked on top. It doesn't look like they exploded or were wrongfully broken though. There is a triangle-like pattern sliced ontop of it as if someone did it with a knife. The card is a 7600 GT.
Do you guys think there's a very good chance it's my video card and not another part of my computer? I don't have a spare PCI-E card (or a 2nd set of ram) to test it.
I'm really not sure what to make of it. I've never seen a display spaz out like this before so I'm hoping it's not my RAM. The fact that it works fine during the POST and not in windows worries me though.
It would start off with "fake" dead pixels appearing on the screen followed shortly after by what I can only describe as a rainbow matrix of death. Similar to when you try and set your refresh rate too high on a CRT and it goes nuts, except I'm using an LCD. It just scrolls random colors vertically and obviously can't be good. Then the machine locks up.
So far this happened twice and after it occured the first time it happened about 20 seconds after rebooting into windows the second time. Also the windows XP loading screen was slightly distorted looking too but the POST data was fine.
I have 2 LCDs hooked up and both of them had the same messed up effect.
After it happened initially I took out the card and cleaned the fan, etc.. The fan is definitely working.
While cleaning the fan I noticed 4 of the capacitors are actually cracked on top. It doesn't look like they exploded or were wrongfully broken though. There is a triangle-like pattern sliced ontop of it as if someone did it with a knife. The card is a 7600 GT.
Do you guys think there's a very good chance it's my video card and not another part of my computer? I don't have a spare PCI-E card (or a 2nd set of ram) to test it.
I'm really not sure what to make of it. I've never seen a display spaz out like this before so I'm hoping it's not my RAM. The fact that it works fine during the POST and not in windows worries me though.