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Techy people please help

[(Anonymous)]

My PC is misbehaving. When I boot her up the following happens:

1) The screen flickers constantly, then turns black. If I turn the monitor off and on again it flickers for roughly 30 secs then goes blank; if I do this repeatedly I can tell she is booting up, but unhappily.

2) It boots up ok, and gets me to the login screen (not that I can do much, not being able to see anything). I can log in, but I usually crash after doing so.

3) If I try to restart at any point I get caught in a reboot loop.

4) Using safe mode shoves me into a reboot loop.

This is new. I went away last week, and she was fine; I came back today and this is happening. Housemate swears blind no one has touched my room, let alone my pc.

Help please!

Re: Techy people please help

[elaminator]

I'm far from a techy person, but I had similar issues with my last computer and it was a virus. Not trying to scare you or anything, and even if it is I imagine it can be fixed, but that was my first thought.

Hopefully someone else can be more helpful.

:( Sorry about your computer.

Re: Techy people please help

[(Anonymous)]

Only thing I can think is when a similar thing happened to my laptop, I think the graphics card was crapping out, but since yours is new... :|a

Have you checked all the connections and cleaned/aired out the computer part? (I'm assuming it's a desktop.) Maybe some dust got where it shouldn't have.

Re: Techy people please help

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like it could be the video card crapping out. :/

Re: Techy people please help

[agentcthulhu]

I take it you have a PC with separate monitor and tower units?

1) Borrow another monitor or test your monitor with another computer to make sure the monitor is fine.

2) Does your computer beep more than once when you first turn it on? If it does, check the beeping pattern with sites like this one. The first start up screen (the ugly one black-and-white texty one before it goes into Windows logo and stuff like that) should tell you your computer's BIOS info. The beeping should help pinpoint what kind of problem the PC is having.

3) Agree with the others that it sounds like a video card problem. Get a can of compressed air and clean out built-up dust, especially ones on fans and heat sinks, because overheating can cause graphics cards to crash. Bad power supplies or not enough power can do that too, but since the only way to know for sure is to take the components out and test them separately on a working computer, it's not something I'd tell people to try unless they know exactly what they are doing.

I hope it'll an easy fix!

Re: Techy people please help

[tyger66]

I would say video card issue, but the reboot loop sounds an awful lot like hard drive lockup, which is pretty much a death sentence. My advice is to take it to an actual computer repair place (NOT Best Buy/Office Max/whatever) and let them give you the news.