Valve Hammer Editor Problem

[=(e)=? The Inspiration.]

I was compiling a VERY large and and complicated map, and while it was on "PortalGroups", my computer screen froze in shades of black, white, and red. There was no way I could restart it properly, so I had to restart it by holding the power button (usually I have to hold it for 15 seconds, so I didn't think it did damage to the computer.) When I opened it again, everything was fuzzy, I couldn't read the text on the startup menu. I waited, and just as it was about to hit the account select screen (I have a 2005 Windows XP XPS Media Center Computer. The entire computer weighs around 30 lbs.), my moniter power button turned orange, which meant it was in sleep mode. I tried again, still, same result. The computer (not the moniter) was still fully turned on though. It's my only gaming computer, whenever I try running CS:S on my office computers and laptops I either get errors or CS:S runs incredibly slow. Any help is deeply appreciated. I'll even donate the person with the correct solution some of my FPSB points.

 

[chrisbliss18]

I think that the compiling process is a Red Herring. In other words, what you were doing when the problem happened has nothing to do with the actual problem.

Sounds like your graphics card died. My best guess would be due to overheating, bad feed of power from the power supply, or some random chip/component failure.

In short, you need a new graphics card.

Oh... As a bit of information, your monitor light turning orange does not mean that your computer has gone to sleep; rather, it means that the monitor is no longer receiving any video data to display and has entered its sleep mode.

 

[=(e)=? The Inspiration.]

Thanks. This is seriously bad news for me, since just a month ago I had to change my advanced hardware to a basic one, which meant half of the games in my STEAM account were useless.

 

[Rogue Sniper]

What are your specs of the machine you were compiling on?

 

[Mustachio]

I agree, the only time I have had any problems similar to that, with random colors appearing on the screen, then failure to boot up has been from bad video cards. In one instance, the heatsink on the video card had come loose and the card overheated.

If you are lucky, that might be the problem (but probably not) and you may be able to reattach it and get it to work.

 

[=(e)=? The Inspiration.]

What are your specs of the machine you were compiling on?

Sorry, I'm not that much into computers. It'll take me a while to browse through the Microsoft website. I'll post them as soon as I can.