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Cleaned the computer and now possible bad video card?

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May 14, 2014 11:42:48 AM


I cleaned my computer because my cpu was overheating. I took everything out of the motherboard. When I put the video card back in once, my computer automatically found drivers and once I manually found the driver with the same result. The video card worked, until I put the drivers in and then the computer would have to restart. Well after I restarted the computer and it went past the windows, the screen would go black and white, squares and lines and it would load again with just different patterns. It repeated this process until it restarted and did it all over again. Only solution I came up with was to shut down the computer. I cleaned the heatsink and fan of the video card as well, thats all the further I went there.

Computer specs

Windows 7 32 bit
Amd Phenom (tm) II x4 965 Processor 3.39Ghz
8.0 GB (7.75GB usuable)

My motherboard is ASRock M3A785GMH/128M
Yes it does have integrated graphics Radeon HD 4200.
Video card GeForce GT 220 1GB 128-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

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a c 96 U Graphics card
May 14, 2014 12:24:57 PM

did you clean and repaste the cpu cooler before putting it back also try with the onboard and remove the gt 220 from the system report result of test .
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May 14, 2014 2:46:17 PM

Yes, i removed the thermal past from the heatsink and cpu. Then i replaced it after i got done. I guess I did not do what they call a clean install when I put back my gt220 in. I can try that.
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May 14, 2014 4:31:38 PM

I even did a driver cleaner and it did the same thing. Loads black and white, then eventually reboots over and over.
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a c 96 U Graphics card
May 15, 2014 9:20:08 PM

check if you did not unclip any ram modules do this system off also check cable on could be not well seated in .
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