Here is a puzzle for you.
I built my computer a year and a half ago, with the intention of it being a decent gaming computer. It had an athlon 64 3500 processor and a Radeon 9800 pro graphics card. It was many many times better than my old computer and I enjoyed playing modern games..
About a month after I put the machine together it started to have some minor problems. every once in a while it would glitch on startup, causing staticy vertical bars about an inch thick to appear every three inches or so across my screen, and some inverted colors.. The only soloution was to power my system off for a few seconds and then back on. A simple restart would not correct the problem. It would happen maybe once a week.. so I would just ignore it.
A few months ago everything came apart; the bars would stay no matter what, the color was off everywhere; it was so bad that the system was unusable. I tried the card in another computer just to make sure it was the card that was defective, and sure enough, same problem.
I figured I'd just gotten bad luck and been shipped a damaged card, so I hopped on Newegg and bought a Geforce 6600gt. It's a great little card, but the vertical bars still appear once in a hile on startup. This has my worried; is my computer going to destroy another card?
So, has anyone heard of anything like this happening, or have any advice? The only thing I can think off is maybe something is off with my powersupply... But I really don't know. Any help is appreciated!
I built my computer a year and a half ago, with the intention of it being a decent gaming computer. It had an athlon 64 3500 processor and a Radeon 9800 pro graphics card. It was many many times better than my old computer and I enjoyed playing modern games..
About a month after I put the machine together it started to have some minor problems. every once in a while it would glitch on startup, causing staticy vertical bars about an inch thick to appear every three inches or so across my screen, and some inverted colors.. The only soloution was to power my system off for a few seconds and then back on. A simple restart would not correct the problem. It would happen maybe once a week.. so I would just ignore it.
A few months ago everything came apart; the bars would stay no matter what, the color was off everywhere; it was so bad that the system was unusable. I tried the card in another computer just to make sure it was the card that was defective, and sure enough, same problem.
I figured I'd just gotten bad luck and been shipped a damaged card, so I hopped on Newegg and bought a Geforce 6600gt. It's a great little card, but the vertical bars still appear once in a hile on startup. This has my worried; is my computer going to destroy another card?
So, has anyone heard of anything like this happening, or have any advice? The only thing I can think off is maybe something is off with my powersupply... But I really don't know. Any help is appreciated!