Video Corruption?

[dextr3k]

I opened up my computer to take my harddrive out. After I booted up again. The screen looks like this, anyone got any clues?

 

[Nenu]

Graphics card or power/PSU failure.

The graphics card heatsink may be dusty, if so give it a good clean.
Check power connections are good.
Try another PSU or similar graphics card.

 

[MrkXCeL]

Anything resting / fallen onto the vid card? Small screw / Cable / Pocket Change (yes I've been there!)
Remove & Re-Seat the card. Is this over VGA or DVI? If DVI check connectors, check for loose solder points on DVI port(wiggle port while carefully looking at solder points) Heck wiggle the port while it's on.

Possibly a corrupt BIOS (static discharge). May need re-flash, do this as a last resort, since if there's an underlying problem, this will for sure take your system down.

Good Luck

 

[colinstu]

What video card is it?

 

[dextr3k]

its an eVGA 8800 GTS 640mb

Its using DVI, and it happened when i took my hdd out, so I hope I didnt discharge a capacitator or something.
I'll try more debugging, thanks for the help guys.

 

[Nenu]

The problem is your Video ram is not functioning properly.
This might be due to a power problem, overheating or a fault.

 

[kirbyrj]

Lifetime warranty?

 

[dextr3k]

yeah its lifetime warrenty but I'd rather try to fix it than to bother sending it in. It was running with a 700w OCZ powersupply so I'm pretty positive its not with the psu

But I'll give evga a shout. Thanks.

 

[evilcartman]

Maybe you knocked the PCIE power cable loose?? Worth checking before you try for an RMA from eVGA....

 

[dextr3k]

the same symptom appears in all 3 machines that i've tried it in. So that basically rules out loose connections and/or random metal pieces on the card.

Called up evga, and being in canada they wont ship a card to me first =(. I gotta ship it to them and then wait, haha.

Going to try to re-flash the bios first before I send it in.

 

[kirbyrj]

Since you're sending it in, just watch out to make sure you don't void warranty by testing things out .

 

[dextr3k]

hehe, lucky for me evga covers bios flashes and overclocking.

however, anyone reading around have experience with nvflash?

I booted it up but i keep getting "this program cannot run in DOS mode" error...which is completely confusing me because how else are you supposed to run it....lol.