Topic: display problems after fitting new psu

[sam c]

Hi

Can someone please help. I fitted a new PSU to my parents pc a couple of weeks ago. This was after they complained of having overheating warnings and a funny smell ( in fact the old PSU had a burn out component).

Since then there seems to be intermittent problems with the display. Symptons are

screen freezing
patches of colour on the desktop coupled with unresponsive mouse
whole screen going balck every couple of secounds.

Any starter points would be appreciated. I hope they haven't frazzeled the cpu!!!

Spec wise

Intel D850MV 2 ghz
GEforce 3 ti500
Rambus memory 512mb

Cheers

Sam

[Sandra]

Hi Sam and

I doubt that its the CPU thats at fault but it may have done something to the RAM or the graphics card  

Just noticed its on RAMBUS  :shock:  , hope its not that as that is dear  

Have you got a psare GFX card you could try in it ?

Failing that uninstall and reinstall it, the surge or whatever happened when the PSU went could have affected it.

[sam c]

Hi Sandra

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping it was the graphics card or RAM.

Unfortunately i don't have another PCI graph card so i'll try re-installing it. As for RAMBUS i too hope its not that.

I'll give your suggestions a go. Was thinking of removing the graph card from the pci slot as seems a bit loose and maybe trying another slot?

Also is it worth trying each one of ram's (256 each) seperately?

Cheers

Sam

[Sandra]

A different slot may help.

I am not sure about RAMBUS but hasnt it to be run in matched pairs similar to how SIMMS used to be  :?

Try this free program to check the RAM, I assume that it works on RAMBUS as well as normal RAM but I have never had a pc with RAMBUS in it to try it on.

http://www.memtest86.com/