Hello guys
I need to take your advice on my problem before sending it in for repair.
While I was playing World of Warcraft, suddenly my computer crashed and when i rebooted i got loads of weird characters on the screen, including the bios screen. To see whats going on inside, I let it fully boot, connected with remote desktop connection, uninstalled the video card from device manager, and rebooted again. I still got the weird characters and lines on the screen BUT they disappeared when windows started loading. Everything looked perfect at this point, but since the drivers were not installed the resolution was only 800x600. I installed the drivers back again, rebooted, but charcters were all over windows as well this time.
I just cannot understand why it "works" properly without drivers. If the video card is burnt out or some other part got hurt from heat, it shouldnt work at all.
Is it possible for the videocard to function if it is burnt?
I also made a search on the forums, and a similar problem to mine is desribed over here:
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My machine is out of warranty, and I would like to take care of this as cheap as possible with the help of you guys.
Thanks in advance