Hi,
I'm having a problem that when i first turn my computer on e.g in the morning, when it gets to the starting windows message, it has a red mist around the text and freezes. It does it for about 3-4 times of restarting and about the 5th time of restarting it will boot fine and once it's booted fine, if i restart windows it will boot no problem.
But if i turn off my computer completely and turn it on 2 hours later for instance, the red mist is back.
I've done several reinstalls of windows 7, it always works fine at first and then once i've installed everything it comes back eventually.
I've done memory tests, reinstalled drivers for my graphics but the problem still persists.
I remember a couple of years back i had a similar problem with a different setup but it happened when windows vista was booted, the problem was the hertz set for the monitor, but this doesnt seem to be the case here.
my specs are on my pm, could it be i need a graphics card? As my graphics currently are integrated and maybe faulty? even though motherboard less than 2 months old.
any help appreciated.
ASUS M4A785G HTPC/RC MOTHERBOARD
AMD PHENOM X4 II 955 BE 3.2GHZ
8GB DDR2 800MHZ KINGSTON LOW PROFILE RAM
1TB SEAGATE BARACCUDA SATA HARD DRIVE
DVD/RW DRIVE
ZALMAN HD501 CASE
LOGITECH DINOVO EDGE WIRELESS KEYBOARD
TOSHIBA 32RV635DB FULL HD TV
I'm having a problem that when i first turn my computer on e.g in the morning, when it gets to the starting windows message, it has a red mist around the text and freezes. It does it for about 3-4 times of restarting and about the 5th time of restarting it will boot fine and once it's booted fine, if i restart windows it will boot no problem.
But if i turn off my computer completely and turn it on 2 hours later for instance, the red mist is back.
I've done several reinstalls of windows 7, it always works fine at first and then once i've installed everything it comes back eventually.
I've done memory tests, reinstalled drivers for my graphics but the problem still persists.
I remember a couple of years back i had a similar problem with a different setup but it happened when windows vista was booted, the problem was the hertz set for the monitor, but this doesnt seem to be the case here.
my specs are on my pm, could it be i need a graphics card? As my graphics currently are integrated and maybe faulty? even though motherboard less than 2 months old.
any help appreciated.
ASUS M4A785G HTPC/RC MOTHERBOARD
AMD PHENOM X4 II 955 BE 3.2GHZ
8GB DDR2 800MHZ KINGSTON LOW PROFILE RAM
1TB SEAGATE BARACCUDA SATA HARD DRIVE
DVD/RW DRIVE
ZALMAN HD501 CASE
LOGITECH DINOVO EDGE WIRELESS KEYBOARD
TOSHIBA 32RV635DB FULL HD TV