Perhaps this is nothing new for : “Graphic cards can be the trickiest pieces of hardware to discover where a given problem comes from in your system”.
I have had many problems that I have solved along the years, but never such a complex one like the last one. I have solved problems of all sort: IRQ, incompatibility, software and hardware problems, HD failing, etc., but everything was pretty much understandable from the beginning and relatively easy to discover and solve after a few hours.
This time, I got so many strange messages, behaviors and weird messages coming from my PC POST that I was totally mixed-up, believing my motherboard was the problem because of the complexity of the errors encountered. It could in fact be “anything”, the motherboard, the bios, Pulsar, anything… it was so strange. Bios would not load, messages were long and complex from the POST with so many bips that I could not even count them at all, frizzing screens, blue screens, constant rebooting, and many other signs…
I looked the solution in a systematic way, which I find it is the best way to find errors in any system. You have to be methodic and organized about what you do not to lose your time and your mind.
Amazing! Yes, it was the nvidia Evga 8600 GTS card that was dying… I would have never thought that a graphic card could produce so many weird reactions from hardware and software and so many uneven messages, all different from each other in nature, and a crazy POST too.
The moral of this story is that “we should always start by checking our graphic card as priority Nº 1” when unexpected and uneven weird problems start to happen in your PC.
Hope it helps someone, perhaps you already new it
