Jikot
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Hello all,
I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit two weeks ago, and yesterday I started having some trouble:
When playing cod4 the computer froze. A couple of hard resets, a driver and bios update later, the computer still froze when entering a game. The screen would start blinking, the sound was off, and then the game just crashed to desktop.
Other games blinked and artifacted as well. I was thinking my GPU had died.
Today the computer got stuck at the windows logo at startup repeatedly, no way of getting through.
I tried a clean install, but during the final stage of the installation (after a reboot and some "completing installation") the screen went black with a blinking cursor, and did not change.
I tried several more times, same problem.
I ran a windows memory diagnostic on the ram which turned out clean, so it's at least not RAM related.
Could a broken graphics card mess up a clean install of Windows 7?
I deduced this from a few replies to similar issues in other threads: they proposed disabling on-board video. I still have not found a way to do this, I cannot find such an option in the BIOS.
My computer is a little over one year old, was of the highest spec when I ordered it, and is now bricked. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
My specs:
Dell XPS 630i
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q9300 2.50GHz
Nvidia 9800 GX2
4GB DDR2
1TB HDD
I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit two weeks ago, and yesterday I started having some trouble:
When playing cod4 the computer froze. A couple of hard resets, a driver and bios update later, the computer still froze when entering a game. The screen would start blinking, the sound was off, and then the game just crashed to desktop.
Other games blinked and artifacted as well. I was thinking my GPU had died.
Today the computer got stuck at the windows logo at startup repeatedly, no way of getting through.
I tried a clean install, but during the final stage of the installation (after a reboot and some "completing installation") the screen went black with a blinking cursor, and did not change.
I tried several more times, same problem.
I ran a windows memory diagnostic on the ram which turned out clean, so it's at least not RAM related.
Could a broken graphics card mess up a clean install of Windows 7?
I deduced this from a few replies to similar issues in other threads: they proposed disabling on-board video. I still have not found a way to do this, I cannot find such an option in the BIOS.
My computer is a little over one year old, was of the highest spec when I ordered it, and is now bricked. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
My specs:
Dell XPS 630i
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q9300 2.50GHz
Nvidia 9800 GX2
4GB DDR2
1TB HDD
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