Rabidchickens
n00b
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2004
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I'm stupid I ran my rig on a crappy 350W powersupply dell gave me, after around 22-23 months it started crapping out on me.
It wouldnt display monitor when i booted, after around 6-10 tries it would run fine, but I would blue screen once or twice a 24 hour cycle.
I figured something was wrong with the powersupply and it wasnt up to the task.
Now it boots, but after i get past the Windows XP Pro loading screen and i get to what should be my desktop I get artifacing all over the screen like black horizontal bars across the screen, which seems like a video card crap out, also its not reading my two DVD ROM drives, which could just be cause a connection got loose or it could be cause the mobo is f--ed up.
So what does it sound like, I realize I need a new power supply so ill buy that, but is my 6800GT fried too, or is that a mobo problem?
SPECS:
3.4 ghz P4
6800GT
2GB RAM
Turtle Beach Catalina Sound Card
180gb HD SATA?
DVD ROM
CD WR/R
Thanks a ton
It wouldnt display monitor when i booted, after around 6-10 tries it would run fine, but I would blue screen once or twice a 24 hour cycle.
I figured something was wrong with the powersupply and it wasnt up to the task.
Now it boots, but after i get past the Windows XP Pro loading screen and i get to what should be my desktop I get artifacing all over the screen like black horizontal bars across the screen, which seems like a video card crap out, also its not reading my two DVD ROM drives, which could just be cause a connection got loose or it could be cause the mobo is f--ed up.
So what does it sound like, I realize I need a new power supply so ill buy that, but is my 6800GT fried too, or is that a mobo problem?
SPECS:
3.4 ghz P4
6800GT
2GB RAM
Turtle Beach Catalina Sound Card
180gb HD SATA?
DVD ROM
CD WR/R
Thanks a ton