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Please help with strange meltdown
I dual-boot to two copies of XP Pro SP1, each on its own 80gb hard drive.
Earlier today on HDD-0 (the one I use for work) I experienced a sudden re-boot while doing a Google search. No glitch, no warning, nothing. It just shut down and re-booted. As it was loading back to desktop, the screen all of a sudden looked like it was melting. The desktop display broke up into hundreds of tiny rectangles - like a checkerboard pattern - in all sorts of unusual colors, and then started shifting like the display was running downward. I did a hard shut down and booted up to HDD-1 (the one I use for non-work purposes), and it loaded and ran fine. I updated and ran virus scan and ad-aware on all drives. No malware showed up. I ran a couple of stress tests on my RAM and video card, which revealed nothing, and then I booted back to HDD-0. For the past hour I've been working on this hard drive, and all seems okay. In lieu of me providing much more info at this stage - the different s/w on the two hard drives, any different updates that my exist on one or the other, display resolutions, etc - for serious troubleshooting, has anyone experienced this specific thing before? Thank you, jakesnake |
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Jake wrote:
I dual-boot to two copies of XP Pro SP1, each on its own 80gb hard drive. Earlier today on HDD-0 (the one I use for work) I experienced a sudden re-boot while doing a Google search. No glitch, no warning, nothing. It just shut down and re-booted. As it was loading back to desktop, the screen all of a sudden looked like it was melting. The desktop display broke up into hundreds of tiny rectangles - like a checkerboard pattern - in all sorts of unusual colors, and then started shifting like the display was running downward. I did a hard shut down and booted up to HDD-1 (the one I use for non-work purposes), and it loaded and ran fine. I updated and ran virus scan and ad-aware on all drives. No malware showed up. I ran a couple of stress tests on my RAM and video card, which revealed nothing, and then I booted back to HDD-0. For the past hour I've been working on this hard drive, and all seems okay. In lieu of me providing much more info at this stage - the different s/w on the two hard drives, any different updates that my exist on one or the other, display resolutions, etc - for serious troubleshooting, has anyone experienced this specific thing before? Thank you, jakesnake Is this the first time this happened? I experienced a similar problem as the checker board symptom once when my monitor cable was almost falling off. I shut down and tightened the cable and it never happened again, of coarse. I would wait and see if it happens again before I worried to much. Might have been a power fluctuation of a bad power supply maybe. J. |
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:43:56 GMT, "Jake"
wrote: I dual-boot to two copies of XP Pro SP1, each on its own 80gb hard drive. Earlier today on HDD-0 (the one I use for work) I experienced a sudden re-boot while doing a Google search. No glitch, no warning, nothing. It just shut down and re-booted. As it was loading back to desktop, the screen all of a sudden looked like it was melting. The desktop display broke up into hundreds of tiny rectangles - like a checkerboard pattern - in all sorts of unusual colors, and then started shifting like the display was running downward. I did a hard shut down and booted up to HDD-1 (the one I use for non-work purposes), and it loaded and ran fine. I updated and ran virus scan and ad-aware on all drives. No malware showed up. I ran a couple of stress tests on my RAM and video card, which revealed nothing, and then I booted back to HDD-0. For the past hour I've been working on this hard drive, and all seems okay. In lieu of me providing much more info at this stage - the different s/w on the two hard drives, any different updates that my exist on one or the other, display resolutions, etc - for serious troubleshooting, has anyone experienced this specific thing before? Thank you, jakesnake It was your video card. Typically when this happens it's dying, but maybe a brief AC (or PSU) power anomoly caused the video card to only temporarily malfunction, returning to normal after a complete shut-off. I'd expect it's going to happen again though, possibly varying with the temp of the system.... or maybe I"m wrong, but that's when I've seen similar video rectangles. |
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"Jake" schreef in bericht
... I dual-boot to two copies of XP Pro SP1, each on its own 80gb hard drive. Earlier today on HDD-0 (the one I use for work) I experienced a sudden re-boot while doing a Google search. No glitch, no warning, nothing. It just shut down and re-booted. As it was loading back to desktop, the screen all of a sudden looked like it was melting. The desktop display broke up into hundreds of tiny rectangles - like a checkerboard pattern - in all sorts of unusual colors, and then started shifting like the display was running downward. I did a hard shut down and booted up to HDD-1 (the one I use for non-work purposes), and it loaded and ran fine. I updated and ran virus scan and ad-aware on all drives. No malware showed up. I ran a couple of stress tests on my RAM and video card, which revealed nothing, and then I booted back to HDD-0. For the past hour I've been working on this hard drive, and all seems okay. In lieu of me providing much more info at this stage - the different s/w on the two hard drives, any different updates that my exist on one or the other, display resolutions, etc - for serious troubleshooting, has anyone experienced this specific thing before? If You see it happen again, check whether the fans of Your computer, esp. the VGA-card, are running properly. Good luck, Rene |
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