[dba-Tech] PC problem

Long shot, did you try a different cable.  Sometimes when getting ready
to do a PowerPoint presentation, the screen will turn green or blue and
after trying a dozen different things we find a bad pin on the cable.

Ed Tesiny
EdTesiny at oasas.state.ny.us
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 2:03 PM
> To: Dba-Tech
> Subject: [dba-Tech] PC problem
> 
> 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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