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    Got replacement videocard back from ASUS after what I believed was a faulty videocard problem, installed it, booted and noticed small marks all over loading screen, then when it got to the password screen it had a series of 9 horizontal white lines on screen, then after entering password the screen went to black and white blocks. Rebooted and same thing happened except this time got a BSOD when it got into Vista. On later occasions similar things were happening, but occasionally would boot with 1600 x 1200 resolution (instead of default 1920 x 1200 of monitor). Then it started booting similarly but now with white speckling all over screen. Also other times lots of fine horizontal lines over whole screen. It would boot clearly in safe mode most times but occasionally with the fine horizontal lines as well.
    Unfortuneately, I decided to give Vista the flick at this point and go back to xp Pro, thinking it was the culprit. Now after trying to install xp I get stuck at 'verifying DMI Pool' after windows tries to reboot the first time. The whole screen is covered in grey blocks with white flashing hyphen marks over the blocks, and 3 vertical white bars about 1.5 inches wide. I can't get it to go any further at this point. I have tried changing the boot device order, also leaving the disk out at reboot Tried setting to fail safe defaults etc but now I'm stuck.
    Any help would be appreciated

    Specs are c-i7 920, Asus HD 4870 video 6 Gb mem Antec 1000 watt PSU
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    Sounds to me this card is bad too, or it's not correctly seated, or it's not correctly powered.

    Or, the initial problem was not related to the video card at all, maybe motherboard problem? RAM?

    Try and re-seat the video card, check the cabling...
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    FoolTrottel
    Thanks FoolTrottel, will have a complete rebuild over weekend and try to eliminate problems.
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    It does sound like a bad video card.
    re-seat the card and check all power is connected to the card. Most modern ones have one or two power connectors opposite the backplate where you connect the cables to the monitor.
    If you have access to another computer, it might be wise to download a Ubuntu image from www.ubuntu.com and burn it to a CD.
    To run it you can simply set the system to boot from CD in BIOS. You will have an option to install it at that point, although that is not needed. At this point the system will not be changed at all. The Ubuntu CD boot screen has several options, including memtest86 to extensively test system RAM.

    If you decide to install, a Ubuntu basic system will be happy in a partition of 4 GB or more on a drive (internal or USB, including Flash drives and memory cards.

    Installed or not, if it also shows the anomalies you can be pretty sure it is failing hardware and not software. Ubuntu uses different drivers than Windows does. These will for the most part be installed automatic with the OS. Only proprietary drivers like hardware accelerated video drivers are downloaded and then installed. Do hook up the system completely with internet, printer ad USB drives before starting the install. No driver CDs are needed. Everything is on the Ubuntu disk or downloaded from the net.

    After install you will get an extra boot screen (do install Grub boot-loader with Ubuntu) giving you the choice to boot already installed operating system(s) or Ubuntu. Ubuntu will boot very fast even from a USB or Flash memory drive/card.
    These days I always install a dual boot WinXP - Ubuntu 10.4. If one OS fails, I can still boot into the other and have a fully working system.
    Ubuntu has full access to data/programs stored under XP. Many Windows programs will run under Ubuntu using Wine Windows Program Launcher. IL-2 even runs faster under Ubuntu 10.4 than under WinXP.
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    Thanks Max,
    I'll give that ubuntu a try thin I've got 10.4 on a magazine disk, just never got around to trying any of those type, at the moment I'm trying to get the other computer going, but having a little problem with patching it to 4.09m as in this post.

    http://forums.ubi.com/eve/foru...181004709#5181004709

    Thanks for your help.
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    HI again Max,
    Have got Ubuntu 10.04 here on disk , also the full distro of Ubuntu 10.10 which it says is the latest version and is 690Mb in size. So which do you recommend I try, as the troublesome computer isn't connected to the internet yet, as I only just got onto broadband and haven't had time to set up my LAN again. lost ethernet connection, so until I can get a router going so I've got both up it won't be able to get anythig off the internet,

    Thanks for your help.
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    Good news got it going after a bit of effort, but seems OK again now just reloading OS and all the drivers etc. Will be doing a full backup of everything as soon as it's up to scratch again. Luckily had put multiple copies of iL2 on other drives and they all still work, also found that my trackir 4 works lovely with the latest trackir 5 software in iL2, not sure about 6DOF in blackshark yet. Thank you fellas for all your help.
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    Good news got it going after a bit of effort
    What was it that did the trick?
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    Not sure took the card out changed the two cables around, reseated it and the cpu cooler also sound card while I was at it replaced all, did the memory too. Put it all back together and it went. Wasn't that happy with the locking of the video card, it's one of those toolfree cases, and I put a screw in this time to be sure and voila!
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    I dont like those tool less setups at all myself .
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