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Mourning a boxen

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One of my first borgs, uncle's family computer seems to have gone the way of the dodo. Was reinstalling XP Pro on his computer b/c it was getting slow and he was using XP Home before. Installation went fine, SP2 installed along with AV and firewall. Turn it off for the night.

Next morning, I turn it back on again and I get this garbled up screen. Thinking it was a boot virus, I pulled out BIOS battery and stuck it back in again. Worked fine. Again when I start it up, BIOS loads peacefully, but windows now is garbled up. Show a resolutionfo 640 X 480 with 4 bit video mode. Any attempt to change that is unsuccessful. Uncle then made a point that the garbled screen occured couple of times last month.

I am thinking its a FUBAR hard drive or the integrated video chip on the mobo has pooped. My bets on the HD. Anyone else think so too?
 
I would try a pci vid card and see what the results are. Hopefully if that works, you might be looking at the death of the integrated video.

Did the XP install stay fine, just with garbled video?

 
I had a case where @ random times, XP would load in 640x480 4 colors. It turned out XP was "finding" a new monitor and going into it's safe color mode. Rebooting the machine kinda fixed the problem until it happened again... If you check the reg you can see how many monitors XP thinks it has.
 
try a knoppix live cd - that'll tell you if it's a Windows problem or a hardware problem (if knoppix works fine then it's a Windows prob.)

gl.
 
The best way to mourn a box is to go buy a faster one. My 900 mHz athlon box died almost a month ago, so I'm getting a 933 duallie (thanks K*!). There's one way to go...
 
unhappy_mage said:
The best way to mourn a box is to go buy a faster one. My 900 mHz athlon box died almost a month ago, so I'm getting a 933 duallie (thanks K*!). There's one way to go...
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my dual isnt dead yet... but since mage is getting a faster set then me... I had to go and upgrade my chips to 1ghz ;) (fs/ft forum) and thus I can bring up the two 733's up in the remaining 370 boards i have... so i gain 2 ghz on top of what I am already running..

so active cpu for me will be 14 soon. (as long as none die)
 
The Silent Borg
A DC poem by BakedON

edited by the moose


thank you


-BakedON
 
BakedON said:
The Silent Borg
A DC poem by BakedON

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thank you


-BakedON
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And I get my posts deleted...geez

Just kidding Iron Nutz!
 
wierd stuff.

Just ran a DSL LiveCD and it booted up fine, suggesting nothing wrong with integrated video in the mobo. The BIOS test reveals nothing wrong with the hard drive, but still windows boots up at 640 x 480, 4 bit and I cannot change it. Reinstalled the monitor drivers and video drivers.

I will run drivercleaner again and check it out. :confused: Nothing wrong with hardware, just something with XP.
 
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