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Help appreciated - odd (maybe nothing) problem

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Chihlidog

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I'm running Windows ultimate 64 bit on my sig rig. As I was browsing, I noticed a very quick split second black screen, followed by my windows outlines going to blue. Everything else seemed totally OK. After a few minutes, it switched back to normal (aero).

I did a re-start, and upon boot, my clock setting had been changed to Pacific time (I'm EST) and the red x was over the audio icon in the taskbar. I switched the clock back to EST and I moved the volume slider on the audio control and now everything seems to be fine, but I dont know what would have caused that and its making me pretty nervous.

Any thoughts on this? I'd appreciate it!
 
This is probably worst case scenario, but I had a similar problem that I eventually determined to be a bad motherboard. Almost all the problems manifested as video issues similar to yours that turned into full blown crashes after a few months. Just the occasional screen flash, sometimes with a note in the logs about a driver crash.

A couple months later the video card died, tested in another system and all. I RMAed the card, and the same thing eventually (after 3 months with no issues, and then the same slow buildup) happened to the new card. Then my old backup card that was in the system while waiting on the RMAs did the same thing. Had it not happened to my backup card, I would have assumed my 280GT was a lemon. I even had the backup card in the secondary PCIe slot just in case.

I tested the memory thoroughly with a couple different live CD methods, and tried moving the sticks around and removing each one. I have no other way to test to CPU, but I'd be surprised if the CPU could do anything to actually damage the GPU. The only other signs that it was my mobo was that the BIOS reset itself twice over the course of about 8 months of this, forgot my drive boot order a few times, and reset the time back to 1996 once. I was even able to successfully flash the BIOS, but it didn't fix anything.

I am waiting on a new motherboard right now, so I guess I am not 100% sure it is the culprit, but memory is 99% ruled out and having 3 GPUs die with the exact same problems in that time frame seems pretty unlikely.
 
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