Computer locking up with jumbled video?

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Gawd
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This morning I went to turn on my computer and it posted but then when it go to my boot loader screen the video became all jumbled across the screen. I reset and it would sometimes get to the windows loading screen but then the monitor would go blank and windows would stop loading. I tried multiple resets and sometimes it would not post. The motherboard would give the errors C1 and 44 on the LCD screen. I went into the bios and tried returning everything back to stock but it locked up in the bios then the video became scrambled again. I finally was able to return everything back to stock in the bios and boot into windows but it locked up shortly after I got in, and the video became jumbled once again, then the speakers started emitting a popping like gunshot sound. I have no clue where to start troubleshooting this thing because I have no spare video cards or cpus lying around. Does this sound like a dying CPU or a dying video card? I was runing my 3000+ venice @ 2.7ghz @ 1.63v "reported in the bios", and it would stay 35 degrees idle and 42-45 degrees full load. Did I kill the cpu? Also, I had to run my chipset voltage at 1.7v to get to 300fsb, did I possibly kill the mobo?
 
I don't think you killed the CPU. Those temps don't sound too abnormal. If I were you, I'd blame the video card. :(
 
Any other opinions? Now it will only post, but it locks up before it even starts to load windows, then the video jumbles up.
 
Here is a screen shot of what the video looks like once the computer locks up. It looks perfect though untill this happens, so I am still unsure if its the video card

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will it start in safe mode? try running memtest from a floppy or thumb drive. I would bet vid card also.
 
first off, run your CPU at default. reseat your RAM and video card. what happens then? 1.63vcore is pretty high even if the temps are low imo.

BTW, thats not a screen shot thats a picture :p
 
could be the mobo, my old athlon had all kinds of crazy graphical screw-ups and would freeze, but it was the mobo: the videocard is still working fine 3 years later.
 
Well I definately think its my video card now, and already got an RMA number from New Egg. The computer stopped displaying video all together, and I reseated the video card several times. The motherboard LED displayed code "2d" which means error occured in VGA bios or VGA card inserted incorrectly.
 
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