Borrow a monitor from a friend to ensure it's not your monitor.
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies, Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows
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> >From the begining....
>
> -Computer has been shutting down from being too hot I suspect (CPU fan
> slowing to a halt sometimes)
>
> -One time, I cleaned out the fan for a second time, took apart
> everything remounted motherboard, text on BIOS appears to be yellow and
> have vertical yellow bars and specks on windows desktop.
>
> -I remounted the MOBO again...
> -checked my memory
> -reseated my AGP graphics card
> -tried another AGP card.... (have no PCI cards...)
> -reordered a new cpu (still waiting on it) because I need a new fan and
> when I looked at my cpu I saw slight black smudge above center of chip
> but later was told it was nothing, because my computer can still boot
> up.
> -checked my monitor cable by wigggling it around and trying a new
> monitor.
> -Had everything unplugged... only HDD plugged in.
> -Turned off AGP fast write, and 8x speed in BIOS (BIOS setup has no
> discolorations)
>
> I'm coming to the conclusion that it is my MOBO so i'm trying to find
> another Asus A7N8X to order... i've had it for 2 years!
>
> Asus A7N8X-Deluxe MOBO rev. 1.1 333Mhz FSB
> 1024 PC2700 ram...
> Athlon XP 2400+
>
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