Video anomaly

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Bob

When I booted up today, my boot screen (before getting to the Windows XP
scrren display) was blocky and pixelated. The opening XP scrren was the
same. When I got to the Welcome screen to login, the display was fine; but
upon logging on and getting to the desktop, the load time was blindingly
slow and after loading the desktop, I have some little fine vertical lines
the size of my mouse pointer that are bound to it somehow. All of the video
functions (open a browser, Control Panel, whatever) open slowly and, in the
case of the browser, the display wipes from top to bottom rather than just
loading and displaying. I removed my video drivers (Radeon 9700 Pro) and
reinstalled...made no difference...booted to safe mode...no
difference...chose a system restore point from 2 days ago and restored...no
difference...booted to bios and checked everything...nothing out of the
ordinary in the bios...

I haven't installed any software or hardware since I don't know
when...before I yank this card and replace it with my spare, I'm wondering
if there are any other things I can do or check to determine why (all of a
sudden) I would have this problem.

Thanks

Bob
 
video card is loose in socket or it is dying.
"Bob" <rcstickel@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> When I booted up today, my boot screen (before getting to the Windows XP
> scrren display) was blocky and pixelated. The opening XP scrren was the
> same. When I got to the Welcome screen to login, the display was fine; but
> upon logging on and getting to the desktop, the load time was blindingly
> slow and after loading the desktop, I have some little fine vertical lines
> the size of my mouse pointer that are bound to it somehow. All of the
> video functions (open a browser, Control Panel, whatever) open slowly and,
> in the case of the browser, the display wipes from top to bottom rather
> than just loading and displaying. I removed my video drivers (Radeon 9700
> Pro) and reinstalled...made no difference...booted to safe mode...no
> difference...chose a system restore point from 2 days ago and
> restored...no difference...booted to bios and checked everything...nothing
> out of the ordinary in the bios...
>
> I haven't installed any software or hardware since I don't know
> when...before I yank this card and replace it with my spare, I'm wondering
> if there are any other things I can do or check to determine why (all of a
> sudden) I would have this problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
 
I agree, video card is going bad.

"BigJim" wrote:

> video card is loose in socket or it is dying.
> "Bob" <rcstickel@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:%23xPqiTSLIHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > When I booted up today, my boot screen (before getting to the Windows XP
> > scrren display) was blocky and pixelated. The opening XP scrren was the
> > same. When I got to the Welcome screen to login, the display was fine; but
> > upon logging on and getting to the desktop, the load time was blindingly
> > slow and after loading the desktop, I have some little fine vertical lines
> > the size of my mouse pointer that are bound to it somehow. All of the
> > video functions (open a browser, Control Panel, whatever) open slowly and,
> > in the case of the browser, the display wipes from top to bottom rather
> > than just loading and displaying. I removed my video drivers (Radeon 9700
> > Pro) and reinstalled...made no difference...booted to safe mode...no
> > difference...chose a system restore point from 2 days ago and
> > restored...no difference...booted to bios and checked everything...nothing
> > out of the ordinary in the bios...
> >
> > I haven't installed any software or hardware since I don't know
> > when...before I yank this card and replace it with my spare, I'm wondering
> > if there are any other things I can do or check to determine why (all of a
> > sudden) I would have this problem.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
>
>
 
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