Hello all.

I'm kinda new to the forum thing but i'll get to it anyways, a few months back i was playing a game of tf2 and my pc had a fit and died, anyways when i reset it i found that in startup when it mentions all that master slave stuff and when it gives you the option to boot in safe mode or go to bios features there's a bit of a problem, it seems that the letters for all of the words on the screen have been replaced, its really quite wierd and i'm not sure how to get rid of it, sometimes it goes back to normal but when its not my gfx drivers cause the pc the bsod before it gets into windows meaning ive been running my pc without gfx drivers for a while.

sorry if its a bit of a lame descrpition but please any help would be great! i can get picturews of startup and post them or something to give a bit of a better understanding? it might have a name(the problem that is) and i just dont know.
anyways thanks!

Hello Vincenoir, welcome to PCHF!

We have a dedicated team of techs here aswell as a very knowledgeable user community who I am sure will be able to help with your problem.

I am going to move this thread to the 'all other hardware' forum as I don't think this is a software issue, and I will mark this thread as open to encourage others to take a look.

If you could post your PC specs (if known) as well as what operating system you are using it would be helpful and will eliminate the need for one of the techs requesting the information from you at a later point.

Thank you four your patience and I look forward to seeing you around the forum.

Smokeycheech

thanks for the intro

ok basic specs:
-pentium core 2 duo E2180
-2gigs of RAM
-160gb samsung HDD
-gigabyte 8500GT 512mb
-GA-945GCM-S2L motherboard
Oh and i'm running xp pro sp3

i know its a bit old but i only use it to mess around on lol
ok i also did a bit more research so i guess they're called artifacts, andways like i have heaps on startup and yeah its messing up that letters?

Thanks for the specs Vincenoir!
Hopefully a tech who is a lot more qualified than me will be along to help you shortly