Weird Video Error. Or is it? Screen turns to green&pink blocks/horizontal lines.

parabolate · 08-01-2007, 06:08 PM

I was playing a game this afternoon, World of Warcraftm and suddenly my screen turned into a fuzzy, pixilated, checkerboard of green and pink squares. Immediately after this occurred I still had perfectly clean audio coming from the game, and could vaguely see the mouse cursor moving amidst the completely pixilated screen.

A few moments after this, the green and pink square pattern then changed a few other times, bigger squares, different colors, etc. and then the screen changed to perfectly horizontal light green and white lines where it remained.

I powered the machine down, rebooted, and it occurred again – this time on the desktop after the machine was on for maybe 30 seconds. Rebooted again in safe mode to see if I could find what was going on; everything appeared normal. Standard rebooted again and experienced the abnormality once again.

I get a prompt that tells me "windows has recovered from a serious error".

I run windows XP, relatively new system. ASUS motherboard, Socket AM2 AMD chipset, radeon x1650 pro video card, 1gb ram...

This problem is obviously not isolated to the alone since it is happening on the desktop as well…

What type of problem might this be and what should I do to try and fix it?
Thanks in advance!

**Doby** · 08-01-2007, 06:27 PM

Sounds like a driver problem because it don't do it in safe mode. Remove the video cards drivers using add remove programs and reinstall the most current drivers for your card

parabolate · 08-02-2007, 12:42 AM

Ok, I got home from work and was about to start working on my PC problem (your driver suggestion and more).....and I hit the power button and heres what I got.....

*click*........."Huh?"........*click click*........"***?"........*click click click!!!*

The PC is "dead" now. I can't even turn it on!!!...

Any idea what this can be?

**Deleted090308** · 08-02-2007, 01:01 AM

Hi,
Your power supply is, in all likelihood, dead. Do you have another PSU you can try?

Finwe · 08-02-2007, 01:03 PM

I would suggest that you update your drivers, and also as well I would agree with him you PSU is dead, without a lack of power, well meaning that it doesn't work very well your video card can't compete to its full Power, try using a new PSU. If not post back here.

taker4mdb · 08-06-2007, 04:23 PM

If you hit the power button and get nothing (no lights, no fans) your PSU is toast (or is switched off or unplugged :P ).
Or your Motherboard could be fried or the switch could be broken... Most often it's the power supply though :)

If, after you replace the PSU, you still have the same problem, try the drivers. If the drivers don't do it, check the video card itself (sometimes they can go a little crazy if they aren't seated properly or are overheating or whatnot).

08-01-2007, 06:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
parabolate Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 63 OS: XP	Weird Video Error. Or is it? Screen turns to green&pink blocks/horizontal lines. I was playing a game this afternoon, World of Warcraftm and suddenly my screen turned into a fuzzy, pixilated, checkerboard of green and pink squares. Immediately after this occurred I still had perfectly clean audio coming from the game, and could vaguely see the mouse cursor moving amidst the completely pixilated screen. A few moments after this, the green and pink square pattern then changed a few other times, bigger squares, different colors, etc. and then the screen changed to perfectly horizontal light green and white lines where it remained. I powered the machine down, rebooted, and it occurred again – this time on the desktop after the machine was on for maybe 30 seconds. Rebooted again in safe mode to see if I could find what was going on; everything appeared normal. Standard rebooted again and experienced the abnormality once again. I get a prompt that tells me "windows has recovered from a serious error". I run windows XP, relatively new system. ASUS motherboard, Socket AM2 AMD chipset, radeon x1650 pro video card, 1gb ram... This problem is obviously not isolated to the alone since it is happening on the desktop as well… What type of problem might this be and what should I do to try and fix it? Thanks in advance!

08-01-2007, 06:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
Doby Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Central PA (USA) Posts: 8,111 OS: XP sp2/ Vista My System	Re: Weird Video Error. Or is it? Screen turns to green&pink blocks/horizontal lines. Sounds like a driver problem because it don't do it in safe mode. Remove the video cards drivers using add remove programs and reinstall the most current drivers for your card __________________ Would you like to help TSF fight cancer and other diseases??? JOIN TEAM TSF

08-02-2007, 12:42 AM	#3 (permalink)
parabolate Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 63 OS: XP	Re: Weird Video Error. Or is it? Screen turns to green&pink blocks/horizontal lines. Ok, I got home from work and was about to start working on my PC problem (your driver suggestion and more).....and I hit the power button and heres what I got..... click........."Huh?"........click click........"**?"........click click click!!!* The PC is "dead" now. I can't even turn it on!!!... Any idea what this can be?

08-02-2007, 01:01 AM	#4 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Weird Video Error. Or is it? Screen turns to green&pink blocks/horizontal lines. Hi, Your power supply is, in all likelihood, dead. Do you have another PSU you can try? Last edited by Deleted090308; 08-02-2007 at 01:03 AM.

08-02-2007, 01:03 PM	#5 (permalink)
Finwe Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 25 OS: Windows XP	Re: Weird Video Error. Or is it? Screen turns to green&pink blocks/horizontal lines. I would suggest that you update your drivers, and also as well I would agree with him you PSU is dead, without a lack of power, well meaning that it doesn't work very well your video card can't compete to its full Power, try using a new PSU. If not post back here.

08-06-2007, 04:23 PM	#6 (permalink)
taker4mdb Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 21 OS: Windows XP Home SP2	Re: Weird Video Error. Or is it? Screen turns to green&pink blocks/horizontal lines. If you hit the power button and get nothing (no lights, no fans) your PSU is toast (or is switched off or unplugged :P ). Or your Motherboard could be fried or the switch could be broken... Most often it's the power supply though :) If, after you replace the PSU, you still have the same problem, try the drivers. If the drivers don't do it, check the video card itself (sometimes they can go a little crazy if they aren't seated properly or are overheating or whatnot).