spiritofmonkey Posted July 3, 2012 Posted July 3, 2012 Not long after I'd installed a few mods to skyrim, including one from here, I got a System crash while playing. Not just CTD but what looked like a core dump (I remember DOS) and system restart. Things went downhill from there. After restart it did same on starting skyrim. After that I was unable to boot Windows 7 except in safe mode, getting a generic fail message on attempting to restore to a restoration point, I backed up everything to an external drive and ran Windows 7 install from a DVD with C drive format. This fails in exactly the same way as Booting Windows did before the install, just as the fuzzy/wavy windows logo comes up it freezes. Before the reinstall it just froze and hung, now it's doing a restart as part of the Windows install and gets to the same point, hangs for a bit then restarts and loops. Screen presentation at several points is looking odd, some pixels in a pattern look like they are in the wrong color and only ultra low resolution seems to work. My Question is, can a software bug possibly have corrupted the Video card? anyone heard of anything similar happening?
Slammer64 Posted July 3, 2012 Posted July 3, 2012 The only way it could corrupt the video card is if you had a failed video bios flash, and since you didn't have that, it looks like the crash was a symptom of a video card failure, rather than the other way around.
gregathit Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 Yea, as slammer stated I think it was just coincidence on this.
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