Alright guys, I got a really crazy problem here. My friends computer (it is my old one, i gave it to him) is going literally insane. There is no consistent problem with it, it keeps changing.
Where the problem started is when we tried to put a new video card in it. The computer started having (what i think was) some major display driver problems because it wouldn't always start up properly (it would freeze on the post screen), and when it did start up it would restart shortly after or start showing weird patterns on the screen. No keyboard present errors started showing up on boot up too, but i think that was just a coincidence because as soon as i wiggled the keyboard plug a bit they totally went away..
So anyways I decided that a format would be a good idea to see if we could start fresh with the display drivers (because I thought that was the problem). After the format I installed all chipset drivers, video card drivers, sound card drivers... The whole works, and the computer worked fine, until a video game was started.
My friend plays world of warcraft, so that was the main concern for him. Just browsing the internet and things like that worked fine, but as soon as he would start world of warcraft the computer just froze and then the monitor displayed "out of range". After a restart everything worked the same as before, but world of warcraft would not.
After this i thought that the new video card was the problem (its a used card), so i switched back to the internal video card build onto the motherboard, and got rid of all the ATI video drivers, and put the video drivers for the motherboard video card in it.
After this, world of warcraft and everything worked fine (its not really graphics intensive, so the internal card worked alright), but after a restart the computer just makes a funny checkered pattern on the screen, and the post screen kind of just flickers..
Any ideas? I have absolutley no idea whats wrong with it lol.
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
This is the motherboard http://www.asus.com.tw/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=13&l3=63&l4=0&model=228&modelmenu=1
Where the problem started is when we tried to put a new video card in it. The computer started having (what i think was) some major display driver problems because it wouldn't always start up properly (it would freeze on the post screen), and when it did start up it would restart shortly after or start showing weird patterns on the screen. No keyboard present errors started showing up on boot up too, but i think that was just a coincidence because as soon as i wiggled the keyboard plug a bit they totally went away..
So anyways I decided that a format would be a good idea to see if we could start fresh with the display drivers (because I thought that was the problem). After the format I installed all chipset drivers, video card drivers, sound card drivers... The whole works, and the computer worked fine, until a video game was started.
My friend plays world of warcraft, so that was the main concern for him. Just browsing the internet and things like that worked fine, but as soon as he would start world of warcraft the computer just froze and then the monitor displayed "out of range". After a restart everything worked the same as before, but world of warcraft would not.
After this i thought that the new video card was the problem (its a used card), so i switched back to the internal video card build onto the motherboard, and got rid of all the ATI video drivers, and put the video drivers for the motherboard video card in it.
After this, world of warcraft and everything worked fine (its not really graphics intensive, so the internal card worked alright), but after a restart the computer just makes a funny checkered pattern on the screen, and the post screen kind of just flickers..
Any ideas? I have absolutley no idea whats wrong with it lol.
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
This is the motherboard http://www.asus.com.tw/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=13&l3=63&l4=0&model=228&modelmenu=1
