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MoBsTa

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Okay, so I play world of warcraft a lot, and for the last six days I could not play because when I get on wow, my computer crashes and I have to restart completely with the power button.

But today something else occurred, I turned my PC on, and I have these artifacts al over my screen, and windows does not load. However, I can get into safe mode just fine.

Please tell me I did not fry my card.

Evga 6800GT not overclocked
AMD 3200+ Athlon 64
 
MoBsTa said:
Okay, so I play world of warcraft a lot, and for the last six days I could not play because when I get on wow, my computer crashes and I have to restart completely with the power button.

But today something else occurred, I turned my PC on, and I have these artifacts al over my screen, and windows does not load. However, I can get into safe mode just fine.

Please tell me I did not fry my card.

Evga 6800GT not overclocked
AMD 3200+ Athlon 64
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sounds to me like you have a driver issue. When you boot in safe mode, windows uses generica VGA drivers. Get Driver Cleaner to remove the old drivers completely, and download the latest from nvidia and you should be fine.

good Luck
 
If you CPU is overclocked too much it could be doing that, but it is more than likely a driver issue. I'll second the driver cleaner and latest drivers.
 
Ok I have a big issue now

The driver thing worked......kinda. I got on windows but when I attemted to install the drivers back the screen went black and crashed. When I rebooted, before I even got to the BIOS screen the somputer said (literally) "System failed due to CPU overclocking"

I have never overclocked my CPU in my life I don't even know how to do it.
 
crazy virus?, You obviously have another computer, plug in your harddrive to another computer, save your files you want,,. plug it back in, and boot with your windows disc, reformat, install video drivers first thing, if it still crashes, then its hardware
 
But how can I boot from the disk if it is saying my system is failed?

I can't even get to the BIOS and I have never OC'd my CPU.

Should I just give it in to a store and let them handle it?
 
Unplug pc
Clear CMOS (see motherboard manual for jumper location)
Put jumper back in correct position
Plug back in
Try to boot
 
Any mobos I've seen that have that "CPU failed due to overclock" message are just checking to see if the CPU and ram are registering properly.

In a truly non-overclocked system, that would mean either:

A) CPU is overheating outright. Solution: Get a can of compressed air and clean out the inside of your system (remember not to turn the can upside down). Probably a lot of dust buildup causing this.

B) Something isn't seated right - probably ram. Solution: Pop out any or all sticks of ram, used compressed air and clean out slots, re-seat them. If it's the CPU, that's another can of worms, you might be better taking it to a local computer shop to have them look at it if you are not tech-savvy.

C) Either/both/all sticks of ram have gone bad. It sucks, but it happens. If you have more than 1 stick, try taking all but 1 out and see what happens. If it fails, try taking that one out and replacing it with one of the others. Attempt to find the failure point, and then replace that module. (Note: I'm not sure Intel systems can run with only 1 stick, so you may need to leave 2 in at a time. That could complicate things, and you may need to find someone with ram you can borrow for testing this, then.)

D) Power supply has gone bad. This is practically impossible to test on your own, though, so if you do not have a spare, just take it a local computer shop to test.
 
Things I have done:

Reset my CMOS
Took out both RAM sticks, reseated, tried one without the other, etc. It stil wouldn't go.

My CPU has a thermaltake fan on it, it is better than the stock fan and I bought it so it wouldn't overheat. Should I take it off and clean the entire thing?

I don't know what else it could be. I dusted my system the other day.
 
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