Do you think that's an overheating issue, or an issue with the drivers? Or does WoW just hate my graphics card?
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Make sure the video card has pretty good clearance and that nothing is blocking the fan. What kind of card is it? Does it have temperature monitor software?
Run 3DMark overnight. If your computer doesn't blow it's brains out then it's probably not your graphics card.
'Proving' that your hardware is good is difficult. Becoming reasonably confident that it isn't bad is slightly less so.
My brother's computer won't boot up. This happened once with starting up World of Warcraft, and just happened tonight with Warhammer. Last time, however, the computer managed to fix itself. Somehow.
This time, we're fucked. The computer boots up with a corrupted picture. The initial black screen has these glitched red boxes seemingly laid out in a pattern across portions of screen and the next screen, the HP screen, has strings of what looks like white pixels up and down the screen.
Various other screens also have a glitched appearance, and the computer will not boot into windows.
Recently we upgraded the power supply, so we're pretty sure it isn't that. Even then, the computer managed to repair itself once, which makes it seem like something on the hard drive.
so. Hard drive corruption? Corrupted memory? Fucked up video card?
Edit: We can get it into safe mode, but the computer seems to be ridiculously slow while in safe mode. Willias fucked around with this message on 11-05-2008 at 06:47 PM.
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Dave had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Was it a dell with an ATI card by chance?
No. I put it together. It's an AMD dual core with a FXF Geforce 8800 GTS.
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A sleep deprived Willias stammered:
Since this seems to be a good place to post computer problems, thought I'd post one I'm having here:My brother's computer won't boot up. This happened once with starting up World of Warcraft, and just happened tonight with Warhammer. Last time, however, the computer managed to fix itself. Somehow.
This time, we're fucked. The computer boots up with a corrupted picture. The initial black screen has these glitched red boxes seemingly laid out in a pattern across portions of screen and the next screen, the HP screen, has strings of what looks like white pixels up and down the screen.
Various other screens also have a glitched appearance, and the computer will not boot into windows.
Recently we upgraded the power supply, so we're pretty sure it isn't that. Even then, the computer managed to repair itself once, which makes it seem like something on the hard drive.
so. Hard drive corruption? Corrupted memory? Fucked up video card?
Edit: We can get it into safe mode, but the computer seems to be ridiculously slow while in safe mode.
Fucked mobo or fucked video it sounds like.
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