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Possible Graphic card failure
Hi, I am in need of some help. A few days ago I was watching an auto repair video and all of a sudden the video screen split in two and horizontal lines formed and there was a loud buzzing in my speakers and the screen went black. Keyboard was completely dead so I pressed and held the power button to restart and no screen or boot but had hard drive activity on the computer. Repeated this numerous times no boot but black screen. Figured it might be a graphic card overheating problem so I disconnected cables and power, opened up the case to clean out all the dust and cat hair ( 8 cats ). Unseated and reseated the memory, unplugged and removed the AMD HD 6850 card, blown out the crap, reseated and plugged back the card. Connected up all the cables and power and restarted. Hit the power on and I got the boot sequence started. Figured all was well until the dreaded BSOD appeared with the following message - "attempt to restart the display driver and recover from time out has failed" Was able to boot in Safe Mode with networking. After it booted, there were two 1 1/2 inch lines with distorted color running from top to bottom of the screen. Downloaded updated display driver - no help. Rolled back display driver - no help. Restored complete operating system from a good image on an external hard drive - no help. I am thinking that my AMD HD 685o card has gone south. Anyone have any ideas? I would appreciate any help. Thanks, John