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    Backpack for an Asus G73?

    ...and six months later, this post makes my day. :D Brilliant!
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    Using ATI card, system has crashed 2 or 3 times now, every few hours randomly while gaming, just as described in OP. It's better than nothing, though, I suppose. Huh. Maybe I should play with this more? I'll try unplugging my 2nd monitor, see if it helps; however, I'm thinking that it would...
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    Yes and yes. Effect appears with one monitor as well. Well, I put it back in the case before installing the PSU because despite tedious searching I couldn't find anything that would cause a short. Plus, taking it out didn't fix the problem, so I figured that it couldn't be a short anyway. Yes...
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    Just for shits and giggles, I tried a couple more fixits, reinstalling the nVidia driver both via Windows Update and manually. No good, of course. I'm also going to throw the ATI 5770 back in, see if any smoke comes out. Maybe later I could write a novel... "Why I Shot my Computer: A Showdown...
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    Well that didn't take long. Speckles are back in full force.
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    For those of you still thinking it's the mobo, in my OP I mentioned that I already tried swapping the mobo. The only component in the computer that has not been actually "swapped" is the RAM, but this is memory that passed 20+ passes of memtest86+. - I've removed the mobo from the case - I've...
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    A sad, sad update. After around 4 or 5 hours playing WoW with full settings, the glitches returned, along with speckles. :( So, I took some more drastic steps... I screwed everything back together and installed the new PSU (Corsair 650W). I made everything all tucked-away and organized so...
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    I can't remember how to disable auto-reboot after shutdown.

    So, months ago, I built a server box to live at my parents' house. I set it up so that not only would it restore power on power loss (in BIOS), but if you manually shut it down, it would still reboot; the only way to shut it off was to unplug it during the reboot's POST. This was to prevent...
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    Well, I didn't have a spare PSU that could handle my components. So, I ran off to Fry's and bought a $99 Corsair 650W. But I haven't installed it yet, because I wanted to do the easy thing first: moving everything out of the case, or at least part-way out. Okay, ladies and gents. My computer...
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    Thank you for such informative responses!! This is really helpful. I will swap out the PSU, and then try moving everything outside of the case. I agree with several of your statements; my reluctance to replace the PSU stems from two other times on these forums with an older build where people...
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    I replaced the Asus board, keeping everything else the same and installing the new chipset drivers. All fans are working. Yes, and I've tried different cards and motherboards, so it shouldn't be a seating issue. The new test motherboard was set to optimized default settings when installed...
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    So, the computer BSOD'd just before it's final crash. On boot-up it gave me the default option to run a system service repair. I did it, boot still failed. A dozen boots later, I finally got Windows back (as mentioned in last post) and got the following: Problem signature: Problem Event Name...
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    Actually, I'm not one to overclock. Everything is stock. I updated the OP with that info, thank you. ;) I can't find this in the BIOS. :confused: My thoughts exactly. I've never had random reboots, loss of power, failure to start, or anything. Any loss of power is directly...
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    Bizarre video glitch. I would greatly appreciate your help.

    First off, thank you for your time in reading this. It is somewhat complicated and may have a very simple, even obvious, answer, but I consider myself an intermediate computer user and have never heard of this problem. I would be infinitely appreciative of a solution to this problem. I do ask...
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    For the [H]orde Give Away!

    I just have to say this... Am I the only one who saw this topic and got confused, assuming it was a reference to the "For the Horde!" achievement in WoW?? xD
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