Something's wrong...[reps!]

[mVp24]

Ok so I'm running Vista 32-bit ultimate and have an 8800GTS.

Pretty much, when I start my computer, the Asus image at the bios has some lines running through it on the left side of the screen. When I try to boot into Windows, it doesn't load into my normal windows BUT, I can boot into safe mode w/networking.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks!

I will rep!

 

[daniSAUR]

Do you have the latest GPU drivers installed?

 

[tinytomlogan]

If it has lines through it that early its not drivers as they will not have been loaded.

Safe mode doesnt have drivers runnign either, problem sounds like gpu ram to me. But Id deffo say its a gpu hardware problem

 

[mVp24]

Reinstalled drivers...problem still persists.

@Tinytom: all my colors and such load up fine on the desktop so Im not entirely sure why they'd be messed up at the start? Although I have to admit, I havent dealt with hardware in a while.

 

[mVp24]

I installed the drivers but there's no nvidia control panel?

:S

 

[tinytomlogan]

If you are having no problems from within windows I wouldnt worry tbh, just a post/bios glitch. IF you do start getting problems in windows then come back.

Control panel wise, use a driver cleaner from safe mode then reinstall the latest drivers for your card from within normal windows.

 

[mVp24]

Well I actually am having a problem in Windows, I can only use safe mode.

It refuses to boot into my normal windows. Could it be a virus?

 

[tinytomlogan]

What do you mean it wont boot to windows? Explain whats happening?

There is no Nvidia control panel from safemode as none of the drivers and extra programs will load in safe mode, thats the point of it.

 

[mVp24]

It only boots into safe mode windows. If I try to boot into my normal windows, it hangs before the login screen.

 

[nepas]

I had something simillar happen with my 88GT,I had to start in safe mode,run driver cleaner then remove the card from the machine,then reinstall it again.

 

[Toxcity]

Sounds like a hardware issue to me. I think that when Windows loads the driver for your card the driver starts to take advantage of the GPUs power but because it is faulty it crashes.

The reason you can get into safe mode is because the drivers are not being loaded and video acceleration is not being used.

That's what I think.

 

[Rastalovich]

Spookily, I had a far eastern 'never heard of b4' mobo do this to me a few weeks ago.

Whatever u put in the agp slot, the visual would be as flakey a hell. Bios would flick through colors, give weird lines. Funny thing was, if u left the pc off for a while, u'd get some joy from it for a few minutes then it would degrade again.

This included booting into a normal desktop, where it would just restart after a while. Safe-mode would come up with an 8bit (at best) screen for a while. Safe-mode uses a standard vga variant driver, which 'should' display atleast 256 colors.

Tried bios stuff, upgrades, drivers blah blah.

Tried maybe 3 or 4 agp cards on it, different makes & models - all the same.

Just b4 I figured I'd tell the guy the pos pc isn't worth anything, I dropped in a regular PCI gfxcard, and the pc worked fine and still does. It's only being used for internet access, so the guy is happy enough - but I've told him that the chances are it'll crap out eventually.

What I put it down to is the power in relation to the graphic slot either isn't sufficient enough through the mobo or something agp related is at fault.

If u have a 4 pin molex power socket for the mobo, I'd give that a try. Other than that, try another pcie - and if that does the same thing, I'm thinking ur in the same situation. PCI gfxcard will probably work fine.