Iron problems. How to diagnose?

Question

linux

Hello! Such a problem:
1) Win XP does not get up at all, swears at the hardware
2) Win 7 after the first reboot, at the time of configuring itself swears at the hardware and asks to reboot and reinstall, After reboots and reinstalls everything repeats
3) Win 8, like 7 gets up normally, reboots, configures, and after 7% the monitor goes out and does not display anything.
4) Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 12.04, 12.04.01 - black screen during installation. As I understand it, this is the problem: forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=159407.0 , but even alternate cd didn't help... The same black screen. Monitors tried 2 different, each separately.
5) In Ubuntu 9.04, the installer starts similarly to the previous ones, but if you press Enter a couple of times, you can see the lines from the ubunta installer on the upper half of the monitor to the left and right. The screen, as it were, is divided into 4 parts, and in the 2 upper parts it displays what is needed, but reduced. But after that, for some reason, it stops responding to pressing ...
The problem with the HDD is excluded, they tried different ones when installing win, the problem remained
. I assume that something is with the video card, but there are no others, there is no way to check.
Actually a question: who faced or understands — help please. Well, or maybe there are some live versions of the OS that can be written to a flash and which contain something with which you can test the video card and the rest of the hardware?

Answer 1

NVidia 8800gs… Maybe the GPU is soldered off.

Answer 2

Well, in general, on the same rutracker, a bunch of livecd assemblies with Windows and various tests in the kit. Such or such .

Answer 3

0. check the temperature conditions of the machine and the power modes of the system and video card in the current configuration - processor, bridges, video card, screw, remove extra boards.
1. Check the current power supply and install a new more powerful one.
2. try to update to the latest BIOS of the motherboard and video card.
3. test hdd - mhdd, viktoria
4. test (by flipping memory over other slots) RAM - the tool is available both in win7/8 and ubuntu - memtest
5. test the video card, most likely on another machine - dxtests, opengl, text modes.
try to change the cooling on the processor, bridges and video card - in my practice there was a case when one of the powerful nvidia worked fine for about a year with a cooler that fell off completely, in XP, with a flash,
and hung tightly Windows when starting any 3d game more difficult than sapper and flash.
still check and possibly replace the cables