- Jul 28, 2017
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A few days back I was using my older PC (QX6700, nforce 680sli mobo, 4GB RAM, BFG Tech GTX 285 OC) started getting artifacts all over the desktop. I rebooted and it went back to normal. The day after it immediately had artifacts all over the picture when the PC first started. Then it would start and asked to run a repair. It couldn't repair. So I rebooted again and instead of the normal Windows 7 wavy flag loading screen, I got what looked like an old Windows XP loading screen, no graphic just a little green bar moving. After that the screen went blank with graphic artifacts all over it. Eventually I got the BSOD.
I figured the graphics card was bad so I tried both (was in SLI before) in my newer PC and the card I had been using did have graphic artifacts. The other card I thought had been dead, booted and worked fine other than the resolution. I didn't want to mess that up so I shut down.
So I put the card that worked back in the old PC and again got artifacts all over and it wouldn't boot. So either both of these cards are bad or the motherboard is going bad, or there's a third problem. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Here's some screenshots of what's it's doing. In this case I could see the BIOS, but sometime it's all gibberish and I can't make anything out.
BIOS screen:
http://i.imgur.com/7IfjfVY.jpg
This is right after the XP style loading bar:
http://i.imgur.com/0LQ2ni7.jpg
BSOD...
http://i.imgur.com/GhHPEcT.jpg
Here's the error message, which you can't really read in that last pic:
STOP: 0x00000050 (0xFFFFF8000000FB8F, 0X0000000000000008, 0xFFFFF8000000FB8F, 0x0000000000000000)
I figured the graphics card was bad so I tried both (was in SLI before) in my newer PC and the card I had been using did have graphic artifacts. The other card I thought had been dead, booted and worked fine other than the resolution. I didn't want to mess that up so I shut down.
So I put the card that worked back in the old PC and again got artifacts all over and it wouldn't boot. So either both of these cards are bad or the motherboard is going bad, or there's a third problem. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Here's some screenshots of what's it's doing. In this case I could see the BIOS, but sometime it's all gibberish and I can't make anything out.
BIOS screen:
http://i.imgur.com/7IfjfVY.jpg
This is right after the XP style loading bar:
http://i.imgur.com/0LQ2ni7.jpg
BSOD...
http://i.imgur.com/GhHPEcT.jpg
Here's the error message, which you can't really read in that last pic:
STOP: 0x00000050 (0xFFFFF8000000FB8F, 0X0000000000000008, 0xFFFFF8000000FB8F, 0x0000000000000000)
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