[dba-Tech] PC problem

check connection points of video card and make sure it is clean of dust?

On 3/19/07, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I've got a "slight" problem with my PC... yesterday, I was playing Company
> of Heroes, and just as I was about to storm the German headquarters, my
> screen turned several shades of pink, with yellow lines radiating out from
> my mouse cursor... this carried of for around 30 seconds, before the PC
> restarted itself.
>
> When it restarted, it had lots of green wavy lines on the screen (both of
> them), around half an inch long, in sets of four, one pair slightly offset
> above and to the right of the other. Since then, I have downloaded new
> drivers for the graphics card, run 5 anti-spyware programs, 3 anti-virus
> programs, Trojan Hunter, run disk clean, defrag, even done a chkdsk from
> the
> Windows CD. After none of those worked, I did a repair install of windows.
> That's not worked either, and I've spent the rest of the afternoon putting
> all the windows updates back onto the PC.
>
> I've even tried using the older drivers that I had installed before
> downloading the new ones.
>
> One thing it is doing now that it wasn't before, every time I try and
> resize
> an internet explorer window, or even close it, is to blue screen and tell
> me
> that there is a problem with nv4_disp.dll, so I googled it, and downloaded
> a
> replacement one from a trustworthy looking website (www.dll-guide.com),
> but
> it's made no difference.
>
> I think I know the answer to this, but I'm hoping to try and get away with
> not having to buy any new hardware... does anyone have any ideas?
>
>
> Jon
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