Ok my computer always shuts down recented to overheating and now when i start it back up the graphic card?

Question

The first thing that shows on the screen is the video card i have in it. They all used to be white letters, now some are white and some are purple. Then it goes to the gateway symbol and then the windows xp screen with thge blue bar showing its loading. Then my moniter says no signal but my computer is still on wtf? Plz help is it my card or the computer?

Answer 1

Sounds like the video graphics card is farkled.

Answer 2

Unlikely to be the computer itself. The one thing you said leads straight to the video card. You said when it boots up and shows the video card info (Bios title), it is in white and some purple letters. When its displaying the Video Bios info (ie Card Name, model, Memory on it) its reading that directly from the video card itself.

I seem to recall the exact same thing happening to me a few years ago, but the weird thing is I have never, ever replaced a video card from being bad. I still have the Geforce2 MX400 w/ 64 MB which is now about 5-6 years old. I have replaced a motherboard once and am not sure if it was regarding the same issue. But I dont believe so, the motherboard I had started messing up when I put in a higher processor than the board supported, somehow it fried it, and the board did nothing. I have had bad memory sticks before, around that time, but don't think thats related.

If you have more than one memory stick, take them all out except one and see if it still does it, replace the memory sticks until you rule out any are bad (ie see if the letters turn back to white again).

Also try removing, or at the very least wiggle (video card) and push it back down into the board to make sure it's seated fully. If its not fully seated, then that can cause that too. Also make sure the video cable on both ends are seated firmly too.

Usually when you have a bad mobo, it just doesn't boot up. Sorry I can't remember exactly that far back of why caused that to happen to me, but it has happened once, and I seem to think it wasn't too serious.

Answer 3

The most obvious answer is yes, and your graphics card would be my very first guess.

However that does not mean it is that, but it certainly is connected to that.

Bringing your computer to any computer hardware location which offers repair services it should only take them a couple of minutes to do a voltage check on your graphics card to see that is where the fault lies.

If anything, and you are willing to replace your graphics card, you can always go to the store buy a graphics card, check if it works, and if it doesn't return the new graphics card for a free refund (check store policy) but since this is time consuming and the use of internal computer hardware should be handles with care and knowledge your best chance is to bring it to a hardware repair store, and paying about 5$ for the voltage check, and only after that pay for any additional charges.

I would certainly recommend you do not just hand them your pc and say fix it, as knowing each step of the process can easily save your money when it comes to the computer repair industry.

Answer 4

I had this problem. try tis.get you card info from sys info along with the sound codex/drivers. go to manfactor site and get up dates for your card and install. do same with sound drivers. why sound darn if I know but that what the Empire Earth teck told me to do. Speaking of tech's call your comp manufactor tech support. If all else fails get a new vid card

Answer 5

try to run start your computer in safe mode and check out your fans on back to make sure they are running. you may want to get a better virus software too go to download.com and get avg it is free and updates are free too. you might also try to run spy bot search and destroy from download.com too. run them both while in safe mode first and then run in normal start up. www.myspace.com/jimmycody

Answer 6

Will it start up in safe mode?

Answer 7

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