Comments | railstar: *beats head against wall*

railstar

beats head against wall

Oct 12, 2004 11:07

Well, I finally had enough of Warpbeast's bullshit and FDISKed the primary drive today. After reformatting I tried reinstalling the OS again (Win2K Pro), but after the initial loading screens for the install program it goes right to that screen of red pixels that it was giving me before (and that I was blaming on a corrupted install ( Read more... )

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nshoe October 12 2004, 11:36:52 UTC

We have a couple of older video cards lying around the house, you can try swapping one of those in and see if that clears it up (at the very least that may help narrow down what the problem is)

lilnekochan October 12 2004, 11:49:48 UTC

And if that doesn't work, PC Club has pretty good prices lately (Jason just got a new video card too)

jecook October 12 2004, 12:21:07 UTC

Sounds like a video card. I had a 2000 install go south because of that as well.

It's possible to test the main memory in machine. I use a program called Memtest86 for that, and ti works quite nicely.