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Old 16th Feb 03, 11:22 PM
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this one stumped me... i'm pretty sure the video card (well, motherboard as it's integrated), is going south, but I'm not positive

was working on a pc, and they were playing medal of honor on a really old machine and didn't pay attention to the specs, it was a 166mhz k6-2 / 8 megs integrated video, and win98 crashed, obviously

he rebooted the machine, and windows wouldn't start, kernel32.dll / explorer kept crashing, wouldn't even start in safe mode, so i went over there, backed up what he needed from dos, and booted off my 2k cd to install

all went well through the text part of setup, until it rebooted to the graphical part. the best way i can describe it, you know how the monitor blinks on and off when 2k / xp setup is detecting your agp / pci bus, card, and monitor? well, his kept doing that, from the second it loaded the 2k booting up screen all the way through hardware detection and i shut it down afterwards

i played with bios settings, cleared the cmos, etc... i'm almost positive the monitor is fine, because if it was the monitor i assume two things would have happened differently:

1) it would have did this during post and the text based part of 2k setup too
2) it wouldn't have been on and off, on and off, it would have had distorted color or have just stayed off, one of the two probably

but what doesn't make sense to me, is the monitor never lost signal from the video card, the picture just kept blinking in and out, and it never did it in post or in dos, only when it started getting to a gui where it displayed stuff in more colors, so on one hand it seems to me like it would be the monitor, because it never loses signal from the chip, but on the other, why didn't it do it during post and dos too?

this is the first time i've ever seen a monitor / video card do this, it started doing it and kept doing it and i was like what in the hell? lol

9x before i formatted the drive would load, kernel32 would crash, and the entire thing would lockup, classic 9x style, which if it's a dying board, that would be the reason i think

he's been needing to upgrade his computer anyways, i let him borrow parts from me for a few weeks till he gets paid and he's gonna buy a new cpu, video card, and case and i'm gonna let him have an old asus board of mine that i have no use for, but what exactly happened to this one?
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