Graphics Problem??

[Hachi]

When booting my PC some letters in the boot up screen are scrambled (not all) and white vertical lines appear down my LCD monitor, the PC wont boot into windows but i can boot into Safe Mode. When in safe mode the white vertical lines are displayed in Red. I have checked the connections for the monitor but they are ok and i have tested my monitor on my netbook and it works fine, could this be a graphic card issue or something else? My graphics card seems to be working fine in the PC but could be a bad chip or something i guess, please help....

 

Thanks

 

Hachi

[Jelly Bean]

Hello and welcome.

 

As your monitor works fine on another machine then it appears your GPU is the issue.

 

Do you know if your graphics card is a PCI slot one?

 

If it is try resitting it into its slot and give computer internals a clean while powered off.

 

JB.

[Hachi]

Thanks for that JB; i cleaned up the card and the PC and put back but had no luck :( I will try to borrow a Gcard from my work and see if it makes any difference before buying a new one.

 

Thanks again

 

Hachi

[Jelly Bean]

That would be good let me know how it goes and you are very welcome.

[Hachi]

Well i managed to borrow a graphics card from work and slapped it in the PC and everything works great, have just ordered a new gcard now :)

[Jelly Bean]

Hey again.

 

Oh that is brilliant.

 

I hope the new card arrives soon and all goes well for you.

 

Excellent.

 

JB.