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Alright wasn't able to find any vga cables however I will go back soon and look better. What I have done is replaced my dvi cables (didn't fix), I also re-applied thermal paste (I cleaned the old paste off). I'm attaching two images of components that caught my eye. The first image is of my graphics card there is a green blotch on it and it seems the metal is corroded. My second picture is of my motherboard displaying ff instead of the temperature. Not sure what ff means.
Wiz, I think you are right. That green blotch looks like corrosion. Sorta like when you find an old copper penny or an old copper pipe that corroded.
So I did further research and apparently ff error means either a cpu or motherboard error. Not sure how to determine which is at fault however..
Before you do anything drastic try another video card. That is definitely no good with components rotting away like that. Has someone spilt something in the machine?