Weird Display problem.
Hi guys!
When I fired up my computer this morning it posted and did everything like normal. I entered my password at the login screen, and pressed enter. That's when the weird started happening. The entire screen would either become black, red or dark blue, or it would be pixelated in different colors and patterns. It boots just fine into safe mode. So far I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling graphics driver, I've done a test on my harddrive for bad sectors using MS' own tool. I've done a good long memtest run, no errors. I've opened her up and blown away dust inside, and checked that all connections are good. I even took out the graphics card and cleaned it. I've run out of ideas as to what's causing this. The fact that nothing bad happens until I try to login to Windows makes me think it's either a driver or a setting doing this. Any ideas will be appreciated.
Specs:
-Intel i7 3.20ghz processor
-12gb OCZ Gold RAM
-XFX GTX280 1GB Graphics card with latest drivers.
-Win7 64bit.
When I fired up my computer this morning it posted and did everything like normal. I entered my password at the login screen, and pressed enter. That's when the weird started happening. The entire screen would either become black, red or dark blue, or it would be pixelated in different colors and patterns. It boots just fine into safe mode. So far I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling graphics driver, I've done a test on my harddrive for bad sectors using MS' own tool. I've done a good long memtest run, no errors. I've opened her up and blown away dust inside, and checked that all connections are good. I even took out the graphics card and cleaned it. I've run out of ideas as to what's causing this. The fact that nothing bad happens until I try to login to Windows makes me think it's either a driver or a setting doing this. Any ideas will be appreciated.
Specs:
-Intel i7 3.20ghz processor
-12gb OCZ Gold RAM
-XFX GTX280 1GB Graphics card with latest drivers.
-Win7 64bit.
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*UPDATE*
After completely uninstalling graphics drivers again and uninstalling and reinstalling sound and motherboard drivers, I still can't log in properly. In 10 attempts (total reboot, then attempting to log into windows) 4 were successful. When successfully logged in, everything seems to run fine, it's idling okay, no problems. I can surf the web and watch videos on youtube and the like. However, when trying to launch a game or see a video using VLC or WMP the screen turns black with either green pixels all over, or black with blue pixels. It's not a complete black, more like a very dark blue. It is somewhat lighter around the edges of the screen. I'm thinking that either my graphics card is dying or my PSU is failing. I have a spare PSU and will try a change in the afternoon. I monitored the temp on my GPU during idle, and it's around 50 degrees celsius (122F), which I guess isn't all bad.
And a somewhat unrelated error: after updating audio drivers, SoundMAX tells me that my headset audio plug is plugged in the wrong place and wont give me audio. It's always been plugged in the same place and has given me sound before. Simply changing some settings fixed this.
I like shopping for HW, in case you didn't guess it.
I'm thinking a full reformat of the HD isn't likely to solve anything?