Billy Pang
tuxedoman888 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 13:28:09 CDT 2007
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 > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Billy Pang http://dbnotes.blogspot.com/ "Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box." - Italian proverb