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CX7 blank screen

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My CX7 with 7900GTX graphics (11 months old) just developed a problem. When I started it this morning the screen had various dotted vertical lines as it went through the boot-up screens. When it finally finished booting, the screen was completely black (off). All of the things I've tried make no difference.

The only clue I had beforehand was that yesterday on two occasions it did weird things with the screensaver which is just a windows picture slideshow. I have a secondary monitor hooked up, so it displays every other picture on alternating screens. When I came in and turned off the screensaver (hit the spacebar) the screens had weird vertical dotted lines in different places. I just drug a windows box around like a chalkboard eraser on both screens and the display went back to normal.

Now this morning I can't get the display to work. I've done a few searches but haven't found any references to this type of problem. Any ideas?
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For the benefit of anyone who may have this problem in the future, I will report my resolution (no pun intended!):

I was able to boot in safe mode, but still had weird vertical dashed lines on the display. Searching forums still did not yield any ideas. I called Hypersonic support and after some analysis they determined that my Nvidia 7900 must have gone bad. They sent me a replacement immediately and I installed it. After a few gyrations in re-installing the hardware and drivers, I am up and running again.

It is disappointing that such high end graphics would randomly fail after 11 months, but reassuring that it happened on the right side of the warranty and replacement was not a hassle.
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