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Corrupt Characters

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I've just had my PC (E6600 + P5W DH Deluxe) shipped from overseas, and it fails to boot. It will boot to Safe Mode, but in normal mode, it will hit the XP load screen, and then the screen goes blank and nothing further happens. In the F8 windows boot menu, the characters are corrupt, with letters replaced incorrectly. This led me to believe it was a corrupt hard drive, but i disconnected the hard drive and let the computer boot up and the "Disk Read Error" message also had corrupt characters. I've successfully updated the BIOS and checked the RAM. Many thanks in advance.

Name: jam
Date: March 19, 2009 at 06:23:33 Pacific

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Wrong forum...try posting in hardware.

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