this happened to me once but not the bios only windows it was because it was clocked to high and the wrong settings.try your on board and see if the card may have slip out the pci-x slot kemar7856

3 way sli is such a waste y would you spend $1000 for 20 extra fps...if I was going spend that kind of money 1 4870x2 would be it for mekemar7856

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Im going to be buying a whole new gamming system to run my RC flight sims and maybe some games.

Just wonder which card is the best to have put in the new system.

Daytona_178

That depends on your price range,,,at the moment though ATI has the best cards (generally speaking)

When I start windows in safe mode, I just get the black screen with a load of blue lines all over it, as in one of the photos. If I leave it for a while, the screen saver appears. Yes I guess based on that it can display lower resolutions, up to a point, albeit with stuff all over the screen.

jk80

[QUOTE="Tracekill"]Whoa whoa. I can't believe I'm hearing people say Crysis has a deeper SP plot line? You have to be kidding me... Nitrous2O

Did someone say that, or are you talking about the gaming public in general from your perspective? To each their own of course, but I'd find that rather surprising. While not necessarily a negative, the "plot line", or story behind Crysis is rarely mentioned as a true strength of the title -- from what I've seen anyway.

What most people consider the triumphant aspect of the Crysis single-player campaign over that of Call of Duty is the gameplay. In agreement with those people, I found the sandbox FPS gameplay of Crysis much more fun than the more typical linear and restricted (although well-produced) ride through COD4.

Maybe shedding a bit more light on this, when I tried to get to windows again but left it for ages this time, eventually my windows screensaver appeared instead of the blank screen. To me this suggests that my gfx card for some reason isn't able to display the normal windows screen, even though it's there, if that makes sense

jk80

I was hoping I'd be able to remove the graphics card from the equation by trying some sort of motherboard based graphics, but I don't think that's possible as the only way to plug my monitor into the PC is via the graphics card.

Perhaps I should be more accurate here, I guess they are not really random characters, they are pretty much in the same place every time, during the bios screen I have vertical lines down the screen, then in windows (when I was able to see it, why has that gone??) there were horizontal blue lines. Annoyingly putting photos up probably isn't possible since I'm typing this out on an ancient iBook and I've tried connecting my camera phone for pictures and it doesn't seem possible.

I thought about some sort of firmware thing, but as you can probably tell, I don't know much about these things, and haven't a clue how to flash bios etc, or even what that means... I can tell you I'm using a Striker Extreme motherboard at least... Doesn't flashing motherboards require a disk in a floppy drive, which I don't have...

I have gone into the bios set up screen and tried to look for any obvious error messages, but nothing is coming up.

jk80