When I turn my PC on all I get is a bunch of lines and little boxes in purply, blue and red colours.
I try going into the bios but it wont let me as I doubt it could display the page.
When I press the F8 button a bunch of times it does make that beeping sound for error.
All the fans are working. I can even hear that start up sound going after about 10 seconds that shows that stuff is being processed or something or other.
I have a feeling it might be the Graphics card or maybe motherboard.
ITs a Geforce 6600. The mobo is a Gigabyte K8NF-9 nForce4-4X chipset Motherboard
But I cant get past the screwy display.
Recently I did have a virus of sorts and some adware. Majority of it I think was removed when I get a virus/adware protection program on. Whether or not if all virus' were gone Im not totally sure.
This screen did happen in the past. One example I think is playing Civ4 and when I exited the program the lines and stuff come up (freezing) and I restart. Then everything would be fine.
But now it pops up immediately after starting the PC.
SO yeh.. IS there anything I can do?
before handing it to someone for some rip off price to get fixed.
I was though planning on getting a new Graphics card in around 3/4 months. Should I just fastrack that to now?
The Ironic thing is my PC is only a about 16 months old while the PC im typing from is about 4 I think