Help Please!! I see Green lines and crazy colors on my screen

[snapware]

when i boot up my screen is filled with green lines and crazy colors, right now i see stripes of green and pink lines, is my video card breaking???

how can this be =(

[snapware]

after a few reboots, think i fixed it

i decided to open vegas, and then close it and reboot and seems to work fine now, vegas must have screwed something up and re-opening and re-closing fixed it.

[snapware]

It's happening again, my computer is bugging out, what can be causing these green and pink stripes across the screen? a broken video card????

[snapware]

I think the machine is overheating, or overheated, anybody know any info on what can happen?

[Barnabas]

If it's just at bootup, but does not effect Windows once fully booted, it's something to do with an ATI Radeon TV card, as mine does the same thing. Turning the power off does not seem to display the same thing.

[snapware]

It's during windows, i cooled of my machine, turned up the fan over the processor, and about 1 minute after booting into windows it's happening again, everything is all screwy

is it possible i burnt out my video card?

[offline]

moving you to computers

[snapware]

I cooled off my machine all night, turned on the air conditioner in the room, and today, everything booted fine, then about 1 minute into windows, i started seeing the weird artifacts all over the screen again, pink and green lines

what could be wrong?

[JerryB]

when i boot up my screen is filled with green lines and crazy colors, right now i see stripes of green and pink lines, is my video card breaking???

how can this be =(

hi,
A coupleof things i would look at....
1. make sure your video cable and replug and plug in well... lose or dirty conntects can cause all sort of issues with colors and maybe lines....

2. another issue possibly is the monitor what type of monitor? a lcd or crt? lcd monitors many times when there color bar/strips either horizontal or vertical maybe a indication of the monitor going bad.... try using them onitor on a different computer.....

3. could it be a graphic card?... yes it can be... but i would look at the other things first....

as far as heat issues... well is the case cool to the touch... if so then generally heating isssue are a remote possiblity.. unless a component is seriously going bad by itself...!

[fatbloke88]

hi
make sure the fan is running on the video card and is no clogged with dust as these were the symptoms of my old card before it bit the dust.

[Treebeard]

sounds like video card biting the dust.

[Afterburner]

I agree with Treebeard, I've seen this many times before.

[snapware]

Yeah fan works on the card, i definetly think it's the video card

Now guys, do u think it was caused by being overheated or it's just that the cards die? ATI card, i'm probably going to just order the same one this week and see if it works

[Heywould3]

wait before you do that.. check the monitor.. if you can try a different monitor even a cheap old one.. when monitors go out they are what causes teh colors and lines first.. when cards g oout they moslty just stop working. but it is possible to get weird colors.. ill put my money on the monitor.. and they dirt cheep these days. try that first.

[FulciLives]

Also as someone else already mentioned ... did you try to "reseat" the video card?

I mean totally pull it out of the slot (be it PCI or AGP or PCIe) and then push it back in ... also make sure the connector from the video card to the monitor is secure etc.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman