Scrambled screen on boot up

booty · 09-08-2007, 02:45 PM

Hi guys I have a ATI Radeon EAX-X1900 XT-X 512mb G/C.
Everything has been running fine until 3 days ago when my pc locked up.
I reset the pc and on the reboot all I got was a black screen the it went scrambled and won't go past that.

I turned it of and left it for 12 hrs and rebooted it and it booted normally, after 2 days of being on it locked up and has now gone back to the scrambled screen.

Here are my specs

Ati Radeon EAX-X1900 XT-X 512mb (pci express)
2 x Western Digital 250GB Hard Drives
FSP Sparkle FX700-GLN Epsilon 700w ATX2.0 PSU
Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe Crossfire Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core 4200+
Corsair 2GB DDR Pro Twin

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance

Joe Koolio 4 · 09-10-2007, 04:17 PM

have you tried the on board card or setting the card you want to use as the default? oh and before you switch your monitor to a new card always set your new video card as the default otherwise you'll run into several problems

booty · 09-11-2007, 01:49 AM

I think the G/C is shot tried a cheap pci card and all worked fine.
Time to start hunting for a new G/C.
Thanks for your help.

09-08-2007, 02:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
booty Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Scrambled screen on boot up Hi guys I have a ATI Radeon EAX-X1900 XT-X 512mb G/C. Everything has been running fine until 3 days ago when my pc locked up. I reset the pc and on the reboot all I got was a black screen the it went scrambled and won't go past that. I turned it of and left it for 12 hrs and rebooted it and it booted normally, after 2 days of being on it locked up and has now gone back to the scrambled screen. Here are my specs Ati Radeon EAX-X1900 XT-X 512mb (pci express) 2 x Western Digital 250GB Hard Drives FSP Sparkle FX700-GLN Epsilon 700w ATX2.0 PSU Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe Crossfire Motherboard AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core 4200+ Corsair 2GB DDR Pro Twin Any Ideas? Thanks in advance

09-10-2007, 04:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
Joe Koolio 4 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Spencer County Posts: 7 OS: Window XP Home Edition SP2 (I hate XP id rather have an unstable os but it is not a good idea)	Re: Scrambled screen on boot up have you tried the on board card or setting the card you want to use as the default? oh and before you switch your monitor to a new card always set your new video card as the default otherwise you'll run into several problems

09-11-2007, 01:49 AM	#3 (permalink)
booty Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2 OS: XP	Re: Scrambled screen on boot up I think the G/C is shot tried a cheap pci card and all worked fine. Time to start hunting for a new G/C. Thanks for your help.