Video Woes

[amerar]

Hi All,

Here are the symptoms of my problem, maybe someone can help.

I have a box running Windows XP SP2. My video card is a Raedon 9700
All In Wonder.

About 3 weeks ago there was a big power surge which killed my 3 UPS's.
Ever since then, when I boot my computer, it goes nuts with crazy
colors and crazy patterns. Sometimes it occurs immediately after boot,
sometimes it get halfway through the XP boot cycle, but I always get
that crazy stuff.

I tried a different video card from one of my other computers, an
NVIDIA MX400. It worked fine. So, I figured it was the video card. A
friend of mine has the same video card as me, so I swapped it, and, the
problem still exists........

Anyone have any suggestions? I was gonna swap out the entire
motherboard next.......

Thanks,

Arthur

 

[Jon_Hildrum]

Before buying anything new, I would try to uninstall the video card
including all drivers. Then reinstall the card. Remember to disconnect from
the internet after reinstalling the card prior to installing the drivers.

 

[amerar]

Problem is, that most of the time this happens BEFORE it even gets to
Windows, during the BIOS detection phase. So, it must be hardware
related..........

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Or monitor related... since it's in the BIOS phase as well.