PC Issues Help

Dekron

I know enough to repair/replace parts, but I suck at diagnosing issues.

During bootup, before and after bios, I am getting exclamation marks appearing all over my screen. I am on Windows 7. Well, instead of the normal Windows 7 boot screen, it looks like the XP boot load then goes to a black screen.

I thought it may be my GFX card so I was able to boot to safe mode and disable the gfx card. I was able to boot normally after that. I downloaded latest NVidia drivers and rebooted then with a blue screen. If it is a GFX card issue it is not one I have encountered before.

I've been on the 07/10 Nvidia drivers since they came out without an issue. GFX card is about 75C peak load so no overheating.

Anyone have any issues similar to this or know of a fix?

Fibsdk

If you have onboard graphics try and see if the PC works fine without your card. If that's what you did then you found the culprit.

 

If you can start it in safemode again then do this:

Right click on my computer > Properties > Select the 'Advanced' tab > and under 'startup and recovery' click the 'settings' button. This will open a new window, and under the 'System Failure' heading, uncheck 'Automatically restart.

Then try and reproduce the BSOD

This should halt it long enough to read what it says. It should tell you exactly where the problem lies.

Grunty

It does sound like the graphics card has failed.

 

This might or might not help.

Type in compmgmt.msc in the Start button's search text box. That will start the Computer Management application. Go to Event Viewer>Windows Logs>System. Right click on System,  select Filter Current Log, in the Event Levels area checkmark Critical, Warning, and Error events and see what issues have been occuring. Investigate them.

Do the same thing for Applications under the Windows Logs area.

After you investigate these and have resolved your issues you might want to clear these logs out. They can get pretty big over time. To do that right click the System log and choose Clear Logs. Rinse and repeat for the Application and Security logs.