Oh my god.

[drexel]

Ok, I have had many problems recently, and now ANOTHER one.

I shutdown to hook up my other hard drive the one that is brocken to run scand disk on it. I shutdown, hook it up, turn on my computer, and there are green boxes on the first screen I see that displays the motherboard, and that stuff. So, I turn off in a screaming rage quickly. I check wires, etc, and turn it back on, and its still doing it.

I am now on it with a bunch of blue and black lines going up and down the screen. I can barely see what Im typiong

I pulled the battery out, thinking it would reset nothing, and that did nothing. I uninstalled video card drivers, and that did nothing either.

I THINK I FRIED MY MOTHERBOARD, or AGP slot, or maybe the freaking brand new 265 dollar CARD.

Only thing that changed was I ran prime96 to see about my harddrve, as instructed by someone here.

So, anyone have an idea of what I have done this time to screw myself over, or how to fix it?

I put this in video, because my video is whats screwed up.

 

[drexel]

K, nevermind. Its the card. I have the old one in, and its working fine. I noticed the heatsink on the card being a bit loose, so thats probably it. Hope newegg has a good return policy.

 

[CrashOveride]

You might wanna see if you can tightent he HS before you go through returning it... unless you have to modify it... Then just return it.

 

[Strida]

Wow, some people have really bad luck!

 

[drexel]

No, there is no way to tighten it. It has those two copper spring things. No screws. I can turn the heat sink like a full centimeter clockwise, or counter.

This is bs.

 

[Alacritan]

What brand makes that POS?

 

[drexel]

Its a GexCube from newegg. ATI 9800 non pro.

 

[hardcorecomp]

Thats a nice card. Too bad the HS is all screwed up on it. Dont mess around with it too much or Newegg may not take it back.