[dba-Tech] PC problem

Yeah, tried that too.

Everything I can find on the web says that it's something to do with the
drivers, but I hadn't installed any new drivers, and the card has been in
since I bought the PC nearly 2 years ago...

Also, to answer Ed's suggestion, the cables are hardwired into the monitors,
and I can't replace them, although it does do it on BOTH screens.


Jon

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Billy Pang
Sent: 19 March 2007 18:28
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [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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