Today my new mobo has decided to cause me a bit of grief.
During the post screens (when starting up the computer) multiple vertical green lines have taken to appearing all over the display. I know it's nothing simple like the monitor or the monitor cable/connector since there are 4 screens before loading windows (see below) and the green lines appear only during the 2nd screen, the main bios screen.
1st- video card screen,
2nd- main bios screen: memory check/IDE device detect, <-- Problem (randomly) occurs here
3rd Gigaraid bios,
4th Sata detect
I tried removing all IDE Devices and header cables (didn't bother with ram/cpu since I can't replace them with anything) and put them in one at a time to see which initiates the problem but unfortunately I could not pin it to any one device. It seems that it is caused by a small bump to the motherboard or case (which really should not cause any problems) but it is very random and often still boots normal even if you are trying to simulate the problem. I still can not work out exactly how to cause or get rid of the problem when it occurs but I'd really like to get rid of it once and for all. Any help plz?
Related notes:
- Resetting the cmos does not help
- When the lines are present the system seems to boot as normal and the windows loading screen is displayed. However immidiately after the loading screen completes the monitor turns off and the system seems to have frozen. Windows never progresses past the loading screen and freezes just
before where the welcome screen should be displayed (if I had it enabled). After a few reboots and pushing randomly on the motherboard the lines eventually disappear and the system boots to windows normally.
- Once, after several resets and finally successfully loading windows I was informed of the occurence of a critical error and windows said something about the video driver causing a draw error. This point only occured once and may or may not be unrelated.
Motherboard/CPU/Ram is all new, video card is a month or two old
Motherboard - Gigabyte K8VNXP
Video Card - Abit Geforce FX 5900 Siluro
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Patrick
During the post screens (when starting up the computer) multiple vertical green lines have taken to appearing all over the display. I know it's nothing simple like the monitor or the monitor cable/connector since there are 4 screens before loading windows (see below) and the green lines appear only during the 2nd screen, the main bios screen.
1st- video card screen,
2nd- main bios screen: memory check/IDE device detect, <-- Problem (randomly) occurs here
3rd Gigaraid bios,
4th Sata detect
I tried removing all IDE Devices and header cables (didn't bother with ram/cpu since I can't replace them with anything) and put them in one at a time to see which initiates the problem but unfortunately I could not pin it to any one device. It seems that it is caused by a small bump to the motherboard or case (which really should not cause any problems) but it is very random and often still boots normal even if you are trying to simulate the problem. I still can not work out exactly how to cause or get rid of the problem when it occurs but I'd really like to get rid of it once and for all. Any help plz?
Related notes:
- Resetting the cmos does not help
- When the lines are present the system seems to boot as normal and the windows loading screen is displayed. However immidiately after the loading screen completes the monitor turns off and the system seems to have frozen. Windows never progresses past the loading screen and freezes just
before where the welcome screen should be displayed (if I had it enabled). After a few reboots and pushing randomly on the motherboard the lines eventually disappear and the system boots to windows normally.
- Once, after several resets and finally successfully loading windows I was informed of the occurence of a critical error and windows said something about the video driver causing a draw error. This point only occured once and may or may not be unrelated.
Motherboard/CPU/Ram is all new, video card is a month or two old
Motherboard - Gigabyte K8VNXP
Video Card - Abit Geforce FX 5900 Siluro
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Patrick