Greetings Hardforum. This is my first post here, and I am coming here seeking advice via my brother's recommendation. I will preface this by saying that while I use my computer a TON, I am not a wiz by any means, and sometimes I have trouble properly diagnosing or describing issues. Please bear with me here and I will do the best I can to provide all of the necessary information to provide a proper diagnosis (and hopefully not an autopsy report!)
To begin, my computer is around 2.5 years old, and built with the following components:
Over the last several weeks I have been experiencing issues with my computer. These issues include but are not limited to:
These first three images show what happens when I start windows normally, ie not in safe mode:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2yuc9d5.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/iylt1i.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/2vt6pvo.jpg
This next image shows the Safe Mode loading screen:
http://i44.tinypic.com/6z7mfs.jpg
Windows error recovery screen: (scometimes the bars are white like the image, and sometimes they are red and fragmented looking)
http://i39.tinypic.com/jp9abq.jpg
BIOS with artifacts:
http://i40.tinypic.com/250858x.jpg
Thus far I have tried a wide range of troubleshooting methods, with varying degrees of success, and always temporary. These methods include: fully removing and reinstalling video card drivers, reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling Windows, reinstalling BIOS firmware. So far nothing has been able to provide a permanent fix to my issues. As of now I can only get the computer to a usable state in Safe Mode and Safe Mode + Networking, and even then it is only sometimes.
Last night the issues seemed to intensify, and I was having trouble even getting the computer to post. After turning it on it would sit at a black screen, while the fans were spinning. At one point this happened for around 20 restarts in a row before it finally posted.
My brother is fairly confident this these issues are motherboard related, and I am inclined to agree with him.
At that, I wish to reach out to the Hardforum community for help and advice on how to proceed. If any additional information is needed, I will be more than happy to provide whatever I can.
As an endnote, I sincerely apologize if I posted this in the wrong sub-forum, and kindly ask a mod to relocate this thread if need be.
Thank you very much in advance and I anxiously await any advice or recommendations!
To begin, my computer is around 2.5 years old, and built with the following components:
- ASUS P6T mobo
- Intel I7 2.66GHZ processor
- ATI Radeon 4870X2 HD video card
- 3x2GB of DDR3 ram
- 2x120GB Intel X-25M SSDs, RAID 0 array (these are also the boot drive)
- Windows 7 home edition
- PC Power and Cooling 750W quad black PSU
Over the last several weeks I have been experiencing issues with my computer. These issues include but are not limited to:
- computer randomly restarts while using Chrome or playing WoW
- frequent BSODs (atikmpag.sys)
- heavy graphical artifacting, which I will post images of below
- on startup certain SATA ports are not recognized
These first three images show what happens when I start windows normally, ie not in safe mode:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2yuc9d5.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/iylt1i.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/2vt6pvo.jpg
This next image shows the Safe Mode loading screen:
http://i44.tinypic.com/6z7mfs.jpg
Windows error recovery screen: (scometimes the bars are white like the image, and sometimes they are red and fragmented looking)
http://i39.tinypic.com/jp9abq.jpg
BIOS with artifacts:
http://i40.tinypic.com/250858x.jpg
Thus far I have tried a wide range of troubleshooting methods, with varying degrees of success, and always temporary. These methods include: fully removing and reinstalling video card drivers, reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling Windows, reinstalling BIOS firmware. So far nothing has been able to provide a permanent fix to my issues. As of now I can only get the computer to a usable state in Safe Mode and Safe Mode + Networking, and even then it is only sometimes.
Last night the issues seemed to intensify, and I was having trouble even getting the computer to post. After turning it on it would sit at a black screen, while the fans were spinning. At one point this happened for around 20 restarts in a row before it finally posted.
My brother is fairly confident this these issues are motherboard related, and I am inclined to agree with him.
At that, I wish to reach out to the Hardforum community for help and advice on how to proceed. If any additional information is needed, I will be more than happy to provide whatever I can.
As an endnote, I sincerely apologize if I posted this in the wrong sub-forum, and kindly ask a mod to relocate this thread if need be.
Thank you very much in advance and I anxiously await any advice or recommendations!
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