SN95G5 went crazy - see inside

[dwoloz]

I went on vacation for 3 weeks and upon returning home and powering on my SN95G5 v2 I was greeted by a wonderful mess of some sort of video corruption garbage



Even in the BIOS I would get it

(notice the messed up text)

When loading Windows I would either get this screen

or this blue screen

or nothing at all


My video card is an XFX 5700 Ultra but I tried a Geforce2 card that I had and the first time I tried it it gave me the same crap then the second time I tried it the computers video output was fine (this is what I am using now)
So I suspected it was my XFX card (even thought I found it strange that the first time the Geforce2 was used I got the same thing). RMAd the XFX card and got back a replacement today: still the same exact problem!



Ive tried pretty much everything and my only final conclusion is that the whole mobo is bad (this fscking sucks)

[streetster]

tried different ram?

[Koolpc]

Could be a virus!!

[schmunk]

Could be a virus!!

Most unlikely - looks like a hardware fault to me.

Try cleaning the AGP slot.

[joshwa]

does it have onbaord video? have you tried resetting the bios?

[Gordy]

The sn95g5 doesnt have onboard gfx but it looks like a dud graphics card by the look of it

The artifacts on the screen are consistent with a graphics card failing as is the driver blue screen error (I believe that driver is a nvidia driver)

The fact you've tested out two different cards though leads me to suspect the agp port on the motherboard.

Where did you get the shuttle from? You will probably have to rma it.