[dba-Tech] PC problem

Got the monitor connection cable screwed in tight?  Maybe unplug it
and reseat it to make sure the connection is good and solid. I always
screw them in but I know a lot of people don't. Might also be worth
pulling the video card and reseating it. Maybe pushing the chips in on
the card itself. I'm thinking it's the cable though.....do both
monitors hook into the same video connection with a splitter? or is
one on VGA and another on DVI? Or seperate video cards?  If they are
the same connection than it must be the cable. If seperate then the
video card itself may be fried. Do you have a different video card you
could swap in temporarlily?

Good luck

GK

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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Gary Kjos
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