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I recently got some parts shipped to me from some very nice people I've known over the internet for a while now. They sent me a new Motherboard, CPU, RAM and GPU. Everything was installing great, got windows xp 32bit going. I installed the chipset driver, then the display drivers. Installed LOTRO (Lord of the rings online) Played for about 10 minutes before I got artifacts and a lock up. I re-booted and this is where my problems began.
I now have artifacting when I boot, before my system loads the OS so it can't have anything to do with drivers right? I can make it to my desktop (640X400 resolution 4bit color) I cannot install any new drivers what so ever, about halfway through the process my computer locks up. I have been doing some google research for about a week now and found this picture. The first picture in this link is exactly what is displayed on my screen.
http://www.playtool.com/pages/artifacts/artifacts.html
Is there a program out there I can use that will test my GPU's RAM? If indeed that is the issue.
Side note: my mobo's BIOS will sometimes be reset when I reboot, not every time but enough to be annoying.
Any help will be greatly appreciated thanks in advance. -Verlo
I now have artifacting when I boot, before my system loads the OS so it can't have anything to do with drivers right? I can make it to my desktop (640X400 resolution 4bit color) I cannot install any new drivers what so ever, about halfway through the process my computer locks up. I have been doing some google research for about a week now and found this picture. The first picture in this link is exactly what is displayed on my screen.
http://www.playtool.com/pages/artifacts/artifacts.html
Is there a program out there I can use that will test my GPU's RAM? If indeed that is the issue.
Side note: my mobo's BIOS will sometimes be reset when I reboot, not every time but enough to be annoying.
Any help will be greatly appreciated thanks in advance. -Verlo