I think its my video card.

yankeefan920 · 07-01-2009, 08:16 PM

Hey my computer keeps messing up, I am only guessing its my video card. I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670. Yesterday I had blue screen, I fixed that, it was a printer driver problem. Now during startup my computer is like loading really really slow during startup. It used to take like 10 mins to startup when it used to take about 2 mins. And after it does fully startup (still running slow) it does like a scambling thing. Right now I seem to have no problems running in safe mode. I have a dell xps studio 16 literally 1 month old. And I dont feel like waiting 2 weeks for dell to send it back to me.
Btw here is the picture of what I meant when it is scrambling.

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5265/dellsucks.jpg

And one more thing, its running vista 64bit, service pack 1

Thanks soo much in advance.

**TriggerFinger** · 07-02-2009, 11:36 AM

'Scrambling' happens even if you boot into BIOS setup? How about with an external monitor? My two cents... bad LCD but could be a bad video chip or may be a bad video driver too.

07-01-2009, 08:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
yankeefan920 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Vista 64 bit, Service Pack 1	I think its my video card. Hey my computer keeps messing up, I am only guessing its my video card. I have a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3670. Yesterday I had blue screen, I fixed that, it was a printer driver problem. Now during startup my computer is like loading really really slow during startup. It used to take like 10 mins to startup when it used to take about 2 mins. And after it does fully startup (still running slow) it does like a scambling thing. Right now I seem to have no problems running in safe mode. I have a dell xps studio 16 literally 1 month old. And I dont feel like waiting 2 weeks for dell to send it back to me. Btw here is the picture of what I meant when it is scrambling. http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5265/dellsucks.jpg And one more thing, its running vista 64bit, service pack 1 Thanks soo much in advance.

07-02-2009, 11:36 AM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,802 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: I think its my video card. 'Scrambling' happens even if you boot into BIOS setup? How about with an external monitor? My two cents... bad LCD but could be a bad video chip or may be a bad video driver too. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE