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screens gone wonky

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  • 07-01-2004 2:13pm
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    rymus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭


    While reading a thread today in after hours my screen very quickly went frightfully wonky. Thick coloured lines appeared from top to bottom and eventually the whole screen went fuzzy - like a cross between the matrix and a puddle of vomit.

    When I restarted the computer it was worse, couldnt make out a damn thing on the screen. Restarted in safe mode and I can use the laptop, although some of the text & icons on the screen still have bits cut off them & generally look as they shouldnt.

    Updated & scanned for viruses and found one but repaired it. On restart - same thing again. About to do the same with ad-aware but not holding out much hope.

    Thinking it may have been a graphics driver problem I removed the driver and restarted but no joy. At the moment I'm just hoping it's not a hardware problem but that seems unlikely as in safe mode the screen is practically perfect. Any ideas or suggestions graciously accepted.


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    moridin
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    if it's only happening in windows then how about totally removing your driver and using the standard vga one to see how it displays?


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    rymus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    well it was a graphics problem thankfully; the nv4_disp.dll file must have corrupted or something. Deleted the file, reinstalled the driver and everything seems to be hunky dory again.

    Thanks for the reply moridin


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Safe mode is 640x480 @ 60 Hz (and 16 colours - but that don't matter)

    So go into safe mode and set the driver to 640 x 480 and 60Hz (and lots of colours) restart in normal mode and see how you go - if still a problem blame video drivers

    Else if Ok then up the refresh rate / resolution one step at a time to what the manual recomends - cos it sounds like you have been over driving the monitor (can kill some older monitors)

    60Hz will give you a headache after a while on monitors with fast phosphor 72-76 is better and 85 better again - PROVIDED your monitor is designed to take it and able to take it. Resolution - no point in going beyond 1024 on a 17" as it usually don't have enough phosphor dots to give each to a separate pixel.


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    rymus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭rymus


    it still wont take the proper drivers for my card. It's an NVIDIA GeForce 4 but whenever I install the drivers (that I had installed previously and working fine) the bloody machine just won't boot. At the moment I'm on standard VGA drivers which is all fine and dandy until I want to start up a game. I'll have to dig out the cd's that came with the laptop and try the drivers on them.


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