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[Mïcrösöül°V³]

its either a heat condition on the vid card or your agp slot took a shit (prolly a heat condition on the vid card)...........my agp slot took a shit which means.....motherboard death by smashing with a hammer

Nothing like trying to cheer the guy up ay microsoul?

yea, Im good like that . But seriously, I was playing BF2 when my pc locked up, when I rebooted, my color and screen size was 640x480 at 4 bit color!!! (I dont think a PC has had 4 bit color since 1984) The pc kept locking up. I checked the vid card in another pc, and its fine. Tested a linux live cd to make sure it wasnt the OS, and the same on it. Tested another card in the PC....nada, still messed up. My mobo is dying, the agp slot took a poop, and so are some of the pci slots cuz my soundcard vanished But I doubt hes having this problem.......or is he

[suprafreak6]

well the other slot didnt work, i guess its probly cuz its for only the second card in a SLI, okay so now i put the card backto where it was, same problems. Could it just be the monitor? hmm will try that next...
what other things could i be...do most of us agree that its the graphics card?
well anyways what will the company or the website that sold it to me (newegg) do?
do they have a parts and labor warrenty or anything?
if i havnt said i have a pny 6600gt pci x16 just to remind all

[dodgy368]

Right, you have to do the Sherlock Holmes method, deduction!

Try your monitor on another pc, this will rule out or prove a monitor problem, let us know please.

[ApacNTS]

yup try the monitor first, if that doesnt clinch it then it's down to mobo or vid card. hope it's the monitor, then you'll have a reason to get a lcd

[suprafreak6]

yup! ill try using another monitor asap! it would be so much better for me if it was just the moniter

[clocker]

Yes, it would.

If not, try using an old PCI vid card and see what happens.
Your problem is lack of spare parts to swap out and diagnostic tools to eval the issue. The vid card, mobo, RAM OR CPU could be the root cause here and there is no easy way for the home user to narrow down the choices.
Newegg does not warrantee the products they sell, you will have to deal with PNY.
We've never carried that brand at the shop so I'm not familiar with their RMA policies/procedures.

[Virtualbody1234]

... The vid card, mobo, RAM OR CPU could be the root cause here and there is no easy way for the home user to narrow down the choices.
..

It could even be the PSU.

[clocker]

Yeah, basically it could be anything.
That's whats nice about working in a shop.
I could pull the parts one at a time and install them into a known working PC or just start replacing parts in the troublesome one.

@sf6....
Unplug everything not needed to POST (i.e., HDDs, opticals, USB cables, PCI cards...everything) and work from there.

[suprafreak6]

well im pretty sure its either the mobo, moniter, or gfx card. because safe mode ran almost normal, except for colors and a lines. All fonts and programs ran normal. I just woke up so im about to test another monitor and if that doesnt work, im goin to go pick up a pci card for about 50, its always good to have spares, isnt it?

[Virtualbody1234]

well im pretty sure its either the mobo, moniter, or gfx card. because safe mode ran almost normal, except for colors and a lines. All fonts and programs ran normal. I just woke up so im about to test another monitor and if that doesnt work, im goin to go pick up a pci card for about 50, its always good to have spares, isnt it?

You can get a much cheaper PCI card for testing purposes. In fact, you could probably find one in an old discarded PC.