Windows XP Windows Is Not Working!

[jasonevans]

please can some help me, my computer is basically dead!

I have a alienware area 51 machine, windows xp pro, with 2gb ram, a pentium D extreme edition 3.20ghz, and a 400gb raid 0 Hard drive (no partition) and a nvidia gforce 256mb extreme edition graphics card. That said here is my problem.

Basically my computer was fine until i turned it on saturday morning.

When i turn it on now i have 3 major things wrong:

1. when the system is loading, while going through the motions and bios screens, instead of listing all the writing normal all the writing is screwed. It is all smileys faces, spade symbols, and the writing is impossible to make out.

2. The system does load into windows but there is considerable slow down on the interface of the system, for example it seems like i have patched in to my system maually using VM ware or gotomypc.com.

3. the standby option is missing on my computer. As well as this my screen is plastered with yellow lines all over it. Again this is well visable when i turn the computer on and its loading. It is also like this in the bios when i press f2.

I have completed formatted my hard drive, and reinstalled my windows os. I am using a genuine widnows version b4 u ask, and yes i have the cd.

Does anyone have any idea why this has happened 2 my machine, as even after doing the complete format and clean windows os install the lines are still there and the standby option is gone!

Also what can i do to fix this?? Please see my print screen where you can cleary see my yellow lined screen and also the no standby option that is missing!

i HAVE TAKEN OUT THE GRAPHICS CARD AND PUT IT BACK IN, AND ALSO DIABLED IT AND THIS HAPPENES IN BOTH SITUATIONS.!!

Help!

Thanks

Jason

 

[muckshifter]

You have a "bad CPU" or BIOS chip ... get the CPU checked first.

 

[TECHGUNS]

Check the fan on the CPU if its overheating a thermistor will limit the current going to it for protection and start shutting it down. Some heatsinks came with a thermal strip printed on them dont trust it. Use silicon heatsink grease.

Try doing a memory test a bad memory can do this. Dont throw it away if it fails the contacts on the sticks can be dirty and ya can clean them then test it again.

Overclocking the CPU or memory in bios can do this also. If your PC wont start reset the bios find a jumper by the clock chip or battery move the jumper to the other pins for a few seconds then back to where it was.
If ya have the book that came with the motherboard it will show ya where the pins are or most motherboard websites will have the pin locations. The make and model number of most mothers can be found between the PCI slots.