So I'm thinking a piece of hardware has failed, don't know how to tell what though. When I start my pc it loads up to when Windows would load, then it gives me 8 blue bars in the very top left corner,
for about 5-10 seconds and then across the rest of the top of the screen it is very pixelated rainbow colors or lines or dot type things. Any help? What should I add?

I can get into the BIOS if that helps



PowerColor AX7870 2GBD5-2DHV4E/OC Radeon HD 7870
AMD FX-8320 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.0GHz Turbo) Socket A
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s U
GeIL EVO Leggara Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
Rosewill CAPSTONE-450-M 450W Continuous @ 50°C, In
Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB C - OEM
Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Com
SAMSUNG Black 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA DVD-ROM

also posted in misc help.

I'm thinking it's probably something to do with your graphics card. Do you have another one you can try out?

And your screen looks normal when you're in BIOS and it only looks fucked like that when Windows loads?

No I do not, and yes it looks normal in BIOS

Try starting the computer in Safe Mode.

Tried starting in safe mode, wouldn't load up.

I fooled with it for about an hour because my computer kept freezing and it finally got to run through the diagnostics check and this is what it came up with.

I then started my computer and it got to the windows screen, logged in, restarted and got the lines at the top of the screen again and it wouldnt get into windows

reseat graphics card

Might be a broken wandoz build.

But yeh, as yupitsmeh, try reseating gpu to begin with

Could be vid card, PSU, RAM or even Windows.

It's definitely a horrible build. :/

How all budget parts couple years ago

Do you get glitch colors in bios?

This post was edited by yupitsmeh on Aug 1 2016 06:06pm