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I got this f---ed up computer problem for the last week.
First i see weird pixels on my windows and in games, like purple, green, blue and even red pixels trough and on the textures in the games. Even in windows im getting them. So i figured my videocard was dying, so i bought a radeon. I reinstalled my windows. That radeon f---ed up my pc even more, it rebooted every 2 minutes and still the same bad pixels. figured it had something to do with my agp slot. I baught a new mainboard (had Asus, Baught MSI). build it in, the mobo i baught was dead. So i put back my old Asus mainboard. no go it was dead too. The screen stayed black and nothing happened. Powersupply? Baught a new power supply and new coolers. Returned the dead mobo and got a new one. Reinstalled windows once again. Using it now but..... Still same bad pixels! Switched monitors, didnt work. Ive tested my CPU with Prime95, Ive tested my RAM with a IBM test program i have. Those 2 arent dead.
I switched my ram with my bros one. also this didnt work unfortunately. This is what happend in this week, busy for like 6 days now and still i got no clue on what the hell this is. I removed my CD-Rom drive, Soundcard, Lan card to see if it was that. Wasnt that either. Someone said it was my Harddisk?!?!? so i tried different one, nothing. Been asking around for a while now, nothing ive heard from people helped. Ive also tried these Operating systems and they all seem to do the same. weird pixels, even when my Geforce 2 GTS drivers arent even installed (so 16 colors).W95
W98
W2K
XP << did work once, maybe coinsidence, or XP delivered drivers. i reinstalled it again and now XP gives the bad pixels too.
SuSE Linux 9.0Any help would be greatly apriciated.
As u can imagine....Im pretty pissed. i spend 200 $ on new stuff and didnt even fix it, to be exactly i never shouldve done it. now i got new stuff and same old prob only lost loads of money on it.
This might be some sort of bug linking in each other like half dead monitor and videocard?! or cpu maybe? i dont know, ive tested basicly all i could. Any help is greatly apriciated.

As you changed all components beside the cpu I think it`s something else like interference from the outside.
Take your computer and monitor to another room and set it up there with no other electrical device near it. Make sure the monitor cable and power cables are as far apart as possible and that there are no speakers or other magnetic devices near it and the monitor itself. They may interfere with it.I know, not very likely but I think you won't loose that much in trying.
BTW:
Are there any wireless devices in your house or radio senders near your home ???
Radio amateurs in the neighbourhood may also cause strange interferences. We have one in our village and the neighbour sometimes have strange interferences in TV, radio and so on!

After long time of searching i found it, and it aint easy to figure it out i tell you ppl.
First of all.
My CPU was busted.
My Mainboard was busted.
My Videocard was busted.Change motherboard didnt help because cpu and videocard were dead.
Change videocard on new mobo with old cpu, cpu was dead.
Change videocard in old mobo with old cpu, mobo and cpu dead.Anyway may this learn you people, it was a combination of dead stuff, probably caused in summer with heats of CPU 78C and a half broken powersupply, also maybe the videocard was dead too.
Now im on a Asus mainboard with a P4 innit, s---ty S3 videocard with 4 megs or so, cant afford a new one yet........

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