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Graphics corrupt when PC switched on from cold
Hi all,
I have an AOPEN FX5900 with original firmware. Over the last few days, I've had a problem when turning on the PC for the first time for the day ie. the PC is cold. As soon as I turn on the monitor (LCD CTX Flatscreen) displays pure garbage immediately. I can't see the graphics card BIOS screen or motherboard BIOS screen. When Windows XP starts to load the corruption changes and you can make out familiar parts of the screen until eventually Windows has loaded but the displayis still corrupt with different colour garbage. I have found that if I turn the PC on and off several times the problem dissapears and all is well until next time I switch on for the first time. Its as if the card is corrupt when cold but okay when its warmed up a bit! I had the exact same problem years ago with a Creative Geforce2 GTS on a completely diffferent PC and monitor! Anyone else seen this or know how to fix it? |
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"The Old Man" wrote in message ... Hi all, I have an AOPEN FX5900 with original firmware. Over the last few days, I've had a problem when turning on the PC for the first time for the day ie. the PC is cold. As soon as I turn on the monitor (LCD CTX Flatscreen) displays pure garbage immediately. I can't see the graphics card BIOS screen or motherboard BIOS screen. When Windows XP starts to load the corruption changes and you can make out familiar parts of the screen until eventually Windows has loaded but the displayis still corrupt with different colour garbage. I have found that if I turn the PC on and off several times the problem dissapears and all is well until next time I switch on for the first time. Its as if the card is corrupt when cold but okay when its warmed up a bit! I had the exact same problem years ago with a Creative Geforce2 GTS on a completely diffferent PC and monitor! Anyone else seen this or know how to fix it? Well I decided to RMA the Aopen FX5900 back to Dabs. I took some photo's of the effect which you can find here if you are interested... http://www.millenniumdesktop.co.uk/fx5900/ Graham. |
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"The Old Man" wrote in message ... "The Old Man" wrote in message ... Hi all, I have an AOPEN FX5900 with original firmware. Over the last few days, I've had a problem when turning on the PC for the first time for the day ie. the PC is cold. As soon as I turn on the monitor (LCD CTX Flatscreen) displays pure garbage immediately. I can't see the graphics card BIOS screen or motherboard BIOS screen. When Windows XP starts to load the corruption changes and you can make out familiar parts of the screen until eventually Windows has loaded but the displayis still corrupt with different colour garbage. I have found that if I turn the PC on and off several times the problem dissapears and all is well until next time I switch on for the first time. Its as if the card is corrupt when cold but okay when its warmed up a bit! I had the exact same problem years ago with a Creative Geforce2 GTS on a completely diffferent PC and monitor! Anyone else seen this or know how to fix it? Well I decided to RMA the Aopen FX5900 back to Dabs. I took some photo's of the effect which you can find here if you are interested... http://www.millenniumdesktop.co.uk/fx5900/ Graham. Turned out not to be the graphics card or I'm not sure. When I replaced it with another one, the problem was still there. I checked my ram was seated properly and tried one stick at a time. I tried removing all PCI Cards and DVD-RW drive but still the problem resides. Could it be the Antec Tru-power PSU or perhaps the motherboard? Graham. |
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The Old Man wrote:
I have an AOPEN FX5900 with original firmware. Over the last few days, I've had a problem when turning on the PC for the first time for the day ie. the PC is cold. As soon as I turn on the monitor (LCD CTX Flatscreen) displays pure garbage immediately. I can't see the graphics card BIOS screen or motherboard BIOS screen. When Windows XP starts to load the corruption changes and you can make out familiar parts of the screen until eventually Windows has loaded but the displayis still corrupt with different colour garbage. I have found that if I turn the PC on and off several times the problem dissapears and all is well until next time I switch on for the first time. Its as if the card is corrupt when cold but okay when its warmed up a bit! I had the exact same problem years ago with a Creative Geforce2 GTS on a completely diffferent PC and monitor! Anyone else seen this or know how to fix it? Well I decided to RMA the Aopen FX5900 back to Dabs. I took some photo's of the effect which you can find here if you are interested... http://www.millenniumdesktop.co.uk/fx5900/ I had something similar just yesterday. Locking down AGP to 2x in BIOS fixed it. It should not be a problem, the motherboard does either 2x or 4x (according to specs) so something is not right but I am happy with the results. Check out my report about my FX5900XT in my old motherboard. What board do you have? Later it occured to me that I may benefit from some recent VIA drivers, I never installed those after some bad experiences with them years ago, I just use the out-of-the-box drivers the come with Windows XP (I think the chipset is KT133A). So that may also be worth a try. Martin. |
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