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ThatsAgood1jay
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This is kinda a long story but all is a bit necessary to explain my predicament. Ever since I built this computer with this motherboard, it's had a few quirks. IT would sometimes take a long time to flash the post screen, it would quite a number of times boot up and be off by about 2 hours on the system clock, and would randomly BSOD (I attributed the BSOD'ing to my ancient hard-drives) I last week flashed to bios F8 thinking it might help these things, but nothing really changed.
Then today, catastrophic failure. I tried to wake the system up and it failed to display to the screen, so I figured the hdd's had finally gone. But then as I got to tinkering with the system a bit more, I discovered that the crappy power button cord was shorting out and essentially constantly telling the computer to turn on and off. So after I disconnected that and plugged the restart button into its jumper, alot of the issues disappeared, my HDD is dead I believe, but now I have got a far more serious issue.
The board appears to post fine, it flashes the screen almost instantly and moves right along to the boot phase, but there is some glitch causing horrible graphics distortion, the post screen is scrunched and has odd blots all over it. And in the boot phase screen, it has Dollar Signs $'s everywhere, including where standard text should be. The system functions fine, I can get into the bios itself, and even attempted to reflash the bios to fix it, but to no avail.
So now I need to know, is the motherboard damaged? or is the video card damaged? has anyone else had an experience like this and could shed some light on it? thanks in advance.
EDIT!:
IT appears to be fixing itself, the GUI issues I discussed have gone away (so far, further testing may bring them back)
Then today, catastrophic failure. I tried to wake the system up and it failed to display to the screen, so I figured the hdd's had finally gone. But then as I got to tinkering with the system a bit more, I discovered that the crappy power button cord was shorting out and essentially constantly telling the computer to turn on and off. So after I disconnected that and plugged the restart button into its jumper, alot of the issues disappeared, my HDD is dead I believe, but now I have got a far more serious issue.
The board appears to post fine, it flashes the screen almost instantly and moves right along to the boot phase, but there is some glitch causing horrible graphics distortion, the post screen is scrunched and has odd blots all over it. And in the boot phase screen, it has Dollar Signs $'s everywhere, including where standard text should be. The system functions fine, I can get into the bios itself, and even attempted to reflash the bios to fix it, but to no avail.
So now I need to know, is the motherboard damaged? or is the video card damaged? has anyone else had an experience like this and could shed some light on it? thanks in advance.
EDIT!:
IT appears to be fixing itself, the GUI issues I discussed have gone away (so far, further testing may bring them back)
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) I decided to just take the card apart and see what I found. I discovered that the thermal pads on the memory chips were completetly deformed away from the modules, and that the GPU was buried underneath sloppily applied thermal paste (WTG EVGA assembly) I cleaned everything up and put some Antec Formula 7 on everything and popped the card back in. Immediately, I saw a 5deg C idle temp drop, I ran furmark again and it passed with flying colors (no crashing is my requirement for passing, performance was minimal)