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Such a random screen problem, please help!!!

by sameerwalji555 Jul 4, 2009 3:03PM PDT

So my computer was sitting for a couple months after i finished school. Decided to do a clean install and formatted my hard drive and tried to re-install vista. to my surprise from the beginning of the boot screen the screen shows 6 identical screens (view picture). I installed vista perfectly everything is working but the screen looks like this:

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f352/sameerwalji/Computer/ScreenProblem.jpg

Please help me, any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks

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Is that a HP?

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 5, 2009 12:01AM PDT

HP has a series of GPUs that fail like that. You replace the motherboard since the GPU can't be changed.

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by sameerwalji555 Jul 6, 2009 6:50AM PDT

No its not a HP its a ASUS barebone S96S. Is there anything else yout hink it might be? I've only had it for about 1 1/2 or so.

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Does UBUNTU do that too?

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 7, 2009 12:19AM PDT

As a test, just boot up UBUNTU since we don't need to install UBUNTU but run it off the CD for a test.

Testing tells us if there is some other issue like you are not using the maker's restore media.
Bob

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