Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Question for the hardware gurus.

date posted 1st May 2005 10:23

I wonder if it may have been the monitor.

Ah hah!
1) Were both PCs using the same monitor, since one died?
2) If not, were the monitors bought at around the same time, are they simil=
ar?
3) Now you've got a signal back - does the screen jump up and down, or
backwards and forwards in depth? Is part of the screen off coloured
(usually green or red)? Does the screen come in and out of focus?

If so, it could well be the monitor.
The only way to check that is to get an un-BIA'd PC and see what the
screen looks like.

Otherwise - I find it hard to believe that the game is frying vid
cards, usually a card will just throw errors if it can't handle what's
being shoved through it. They tend not to fry from high-end gaming.
Though, as you said, other people have had similar problems. It could
be that it's screwed something software -wise, but then it shouldn't
really have problems on bootup.

Try putting a Windows CD in and booting from that. See what that looks like=
.

Nicola


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