# garbled text on first boot... video card a POS?

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**Created:** [December 3, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/garbled-text-on-first-boot-video-card-a-pos/39682 "2007-12-03T17:42:58Z")
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### Author: ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/garbled-text-on-first-boot-video-card-a-pos/39682/3 "2007-12-03T17:49:32Z")

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nah, it’s not a game… it’s the actual boot screen and bios thats illegible. It looks like when I Nintendo game was getting flaky way back when. You’d get random letters and numbers all over the screen along with vertical lines. I’ll try to get a picture of it.

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