hi guys, i need some troubleshooting help.
i dunno if it's the video card problem or motherboard problem or something else altogether.
after i got the 8800gts, i upgraded to vista and installed 101.41 drivers. soon after, during wow, the game crashed and i got a bsod, i did not have time to read the screen b4 it reset my computer. after it was reset, it would never reach windows again. i would get bsod during the windows loading screen or at the end of it. i could not even boot off the vista cd as it would also go to bsod. i finally got around this by reformatting and reinstalling winxp thru booting off the winxp cd.
i should also note that i could not boot off the xp disc until i switched the video card to a older 6800gt i had laying around. and a funny thing is happening with the 6800 that i once again dunno if it's the vid card or the mobo. but from time to time while using the 6600 the screen would black out and flash constantly between windows and blacked out screen. after i got windows xp installed i went back to the 8800gts
so i went back to windows xp and a clean install, and things were going fine for about a week. earlier tonight the same thing happened again and i bsod'ed during WoW, and the system could no longer boot to windows w/o bsod'ing somewhere during the boot.
yes, i have tried booting to safe mode, to no avail. i've also tried booting off another video card, also won't work. i'm gonna try booting it again tomorrow, but i doubt it'll work.
question is, i can't isolate the problem, is it video card or motherboard?
i dunno if it's the video card problem or motherboard problem or something else altogether.
after i got the 8800gts, i upgraded to vista and installed 101.41 drivers. soon after, during wow, the game crashed and i got a bsod, i did not have time to read the screen b4 it reset my computer. after it was reset, it would never reach windows again. i would get bsod during the windows loading screen or at the end of it. i could not even boot off the vista cd as it would also go to bsod. i finally got around this by reformatting and reinstalling winxp thru booting off the winxp cd.
i should also note that i could not boot off the xp disc until i switched the video card to a older 6800gt i had laying around. and a funny thing is happening with the 6800 that i once again dunno if it's the vid card or the mobo. but from time to time while using the 6600 the screen would black out and flash constantly between windows and blacked out screen. after i got windows xp installed i went back to the 8800gts
so i went back to windows xp and a clean install, and things were going fine for about a week. earlier tonight the same thing happened again and i bsod'ed during WoW, and the system could no longer boot to windows w/o bsod'ing somewhere during the boot.
yes, i have tried booting to safe mode, to no avail. i've also tried booting off another video card, also won't work. i'm gonna try booting it again tomorrow, but i doubt it'll work.
question is, i can't isolate the problem, is it video card or motherboard?