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HolyGuacamole

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Registered: 2012-03-29

Posts: 6

Computer crashes when booting and weird artifacts on screen

Hi

I have two problms with my computer which make it unusuable.

First: My machine crashes most of the time when booting at processing the udev uevents OR it doesn't even attempt to load the BIOS.
See for a more detailed : http://imgur.com/YzY2Z

I suspect the five years old power supply unit (mean lifetime between failure according to the manual: 100.000 hrs = ~12 years) to be defect, but I am not sure.

Any ideas?

Second: Recently these artifacts have shown up on my screen. Moreover when my PC happens to boot successfully the X server fails to start (NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Input/output error))
I can exclude the monitor, video cable and drivers as the cause of the problem so I guess the video card needs to be replaced, but I'd like to hear a second opinion before I buy a new one.

I'd be really grateful anybody could help me.

SOLVED by replacing PSU and video card.

Regards, HolyGuac

Last edited by HolyGuacamole (2012-10-16 15:30:51)

lagagnon

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Re: Computer crashes when booting and weird artifacts on screen

Yes, I suspect power supply problems and video card, as you suggest. Once you've solved those make sure you also check the state of your RAM with memtest.

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