Weird video on startup

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Basically I have an issue where on the first boot after the computer has been off for a while, I get a bunch of columns of various colors yet behind them I can see things happening like normal. Until I shut it down completely, it doesn't happen again even with multiple reboots in between.

I've got an X1900 all in wonder, foxconn 975xab mobo, Pentium D 805, and 2 gigs of Patriot RAM. I've updated my BIOS, run several passes of Memtest with no errors. The only thing I can possibly think of at this point is the fact that I had to take off a small gold plate when I mounted an Accelero cooler to the X1900 which could be for EMI, but since it only happens on the first boot that doesn't seem to make sense. Also I guess I should add that I'm not overclocking any of the components.

I'm kind of stumped here and any solution would nice. I've tried searching but I'm not sure exactly what terms to use and there's lots of results for things like "video corruption" and errors on startup.
 
I'm having a similar issue but I know the cause... on my asus A8n7x Deluxe three of the caps near the vid card are leaking and I need to replace them, I'd look for something similar if I were you
 
Geez better not be, I just got this board a week ago as an RMA for a board that wouldn't post. Wouldn't those caps affect anything else though? The system is rock solid after the colors clear up, even when playing games and such.
 
well mine is sort of geeky... I notice some times mine won't boot at all and requires a reset of the cmos... in which case the speed of my processor is not the right speed. who knows what might not be the right setting so who knows.

I also suspect mine fried an old 9700 of mine but I blamed that at the time on the arctic cooler I put on there, I thought maybe I had seated it wrong, come to find out this issue can destroy vid cards.
 
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