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 Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2011 22:55 Post subject: wtf just happened? 16bit colors/fucked up bootscreen |
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just like the title says.
my comp just crashed and I had some hyroglyphic shit on my bootscreen and my windows colors turned into 16bit colors and it didn't detect my GPU.
I plugged the gtx 285 into the 2nd PCI-E slot and it works now. I'll try the first slot again ... I guess it's my fuckin new mainboard (Asus P8P67)
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2011 22:58 Post subject: |
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Reinstall the graphics drivers, just in case.
Plug the graphics card in the initial slot again. If the problem occurs again, then it's a fucked-up slot.
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2011 23:00 Post subject: |
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what could the graphics driver probably have to do with the bootscreen? if the first slot isn't working anymore, exchange your mainboard. btw don't spill anymore beer on your computer 
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2011 23:04 Post subject: |
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| PumpAction wrote: | | what could the graphics driver probably have to do with the bootscreen? |
Strangely enough, I thought of the Windows Welcome screen and not the boot screen which is displayed at the very start of the computer.
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2011 23:07 Post subject: |
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Had the same problem with my work notebook. Rebooted 3 times, each time fucked up colors, booted a 4th time and first thing I did was backup the system and then I brought it back to the service center and they sent me a new one 
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2011 23:17 Post subject: |
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Most probably something didn't sit real tight in it's place and is fixed now 
But maybe there is a smally tiny miny crack somewhere which will ultimately fry all your computer and void any warranty 
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2011 23:41 Post subject: |
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Oh shit, it just crashed again.... FUCK!
and everything is fucked up again. I'll change my mainboard...
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Apr 2011 23:42 Post subject: |
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RMA. Nothing else to do, however.
Use the second slot for a day or two just to see if the problem will occur here as well. If not, then the x16 one is damaged.
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 00:02 Post subject: |
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Hmm, could it be something related to the graphics card? That the card itself is the culprit? Do you have a second card in the offing? Just to test and see if it's really the motherboard ...
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 00:11 Post subject: |
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I don't have a 2nd gpu here... but I'm pretty sure it's the mainboard
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 00:27 Post subject: |
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Looks like GPU is failing to me. Check temps if you can.
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 01:21 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 01:22 Post subject: |
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You probably have to bake your card.... just remove all plastic and screws and whatever you can find and put it in the oven. Look on youtube for tutorials.
Empty again 
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 06:49 Post subject: |
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My 8800GTX died like that. I bet that its your GPU that is causing that shit.
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 13:07 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 13:16 Post subject: |
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| PumpAction wrote: | | No way to exchange it?! |
the 2 year warranty ended 7 days ago (FUCK YEA I'M SO LUCKY!!!!) >.<...
But I registered my card when I bought in 2009 on the EVGA page...I hope I can use their 10 year warranty thing.
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Werelds
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 13:48 Post subject: |
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Yes you can, and EVGA are pretty good when it comes to warranty as well. Your issue might be either, but it's fairly easy to find out if it's the motherboard. Is ANYTHING else malfunctioning? Corrupt data on hard drives, blue screens or anything? If so, it'll be the board more likely; as soon as the PCI-e goes, the SATA controller usually goes with it, and often the memory controller as well.
@ Lathieza/Breezer: did NVIDIA still use the shitty stuff they used on the G80 and G92? If they did, that has FAIL written all over it, because that was the only bad thing about G80/G92 :/
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 14:30 Post subject: |
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nope, just the fucked up graphic. nothing else. I can see my 285 on the device manager but it says "windows stopped this hardware because of the error code 43. I can't change the resolution and the colors.. 16bit 600x400 is sooooooooo ugly... >.<
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 14:57 Post subject: |
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| Kurosaki wrote: | | nope, just the fucked up graphic. nothing else. I can see my 285 on the device manager but it says "windows stopped this hardware because of the error code 43. I can't change the resolution and the colors.. 16bit 600x400 is sooooooooo ugly... >.< |
It's most probably 640x480 @ 4bit (if 16 colors) or 8bit (if 256 colors) |
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 15:52 Post subject: |
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got an answer from the EVGA support....they want to see my sales receipt. I'll upload it at the member page on their site. I hoooooooooooooope they replace my card !!
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tonizito
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 16:10 Post subject: |
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| Kurosaki wrote: | | got an answer from the EVGA support....they want to see my sales receipt. I'll upload it at the member page on their site. I hoooooooooooooope they replace my card !! |
Good luck and be strong!
It will be a tough 30 days without a decent GPU. 
At least for me it was.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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ixigia
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| Posted: Tue, 5th Apr 2011 18:43 Post subject: |
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Good luck Kuro, I had a very similar problem with my old 8800gtx, hopefully it was still in warranty (by a hair) and got the 4870 1GB 
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