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labbats · Post by **labbats** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:41 am

My computer was working perfectly until this morning, when I ran Windows Update. It requested a reboot, and then things went badly.

There were horizontal bars across the screen during bootup, and when I hit F8 to go to safe mode, it was blanked out. Also, letters were missing on stuff. For example it said "oading indows"

Then everything runs on desktop, so I refreshed norton antivirus 2005 and ran it over everything. No virus'. The desktop shows vertical bars, about 5, up the minority of the screen. I can see between the bars, but on the black bars there's nothing. Static runs up the screen at times too.

BTW - I'm typing this on a different computer.

horendus · Post by **horendus** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:56 am

Sounds like a video problem. An update may have altered your bios settings. Go into cmos and check your video settings, such as if it is supposedto be set to AGP and maybe an onbboard video card is enabled. Or check your AGP speed settings in there while youre at it.

Also, you may want to upgrade to the latest video card drivers. There might have been a update to the system that outdated your current drivers.

Or it could have just been a coincidence. Try putting a different video card in.

labbats · Post by **labbats** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:57 am

wilco

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:07 am

I bet it loaded an MS video driver instead of your manufacturers. DL and load the latest drivers for your card.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:36 am

Either that or maybe your monitor is going bonkers. Can you check another one?

labbats · Post by **labbats** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:42 am

I can't check another one without rearranging the downstairs.

I still have the bars after resetting the drivers. But it did say some warnings.

First was "Zero Display Service Error"

Second was "No Display Service"

Now it's been established that I'm worthless at computers, but even I can tell that somehow my computer is having issues with my monitor. What specifically should I be checking? Go to control panel, then display?

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:49 am

Either that or you can check your actual monitor settings, maybe it set your monitor refresh rate higher than it can handle. Start->Settings->Control Panel and mess with monitor options there.

labbats · Post by **labbats** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:59 am

Search for new hardware came up with nothing. Plug and play found nothing. Changing refresh rates and drivers did nothing. And it's showing that the monitor is working correctly when I select troubleshoot.

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:02 am

like taxx said, go in to advanced display settings and change the refresh rate to 60hz. Also try dropping your resolution down to 1024x768

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:03 am

Maybe the cable or video card got loose? Other than that I'm out of ideas unless you fried your monitor.

labbats · Post by **labbats** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:10 am

Tossica wrote:like taxx said, go in to advanced display settings and change the refresh rate to 60hz. Also try dropping your resolution down to 1024x768

i did, no changes except now I have two really wide bars.

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:15 am

Is there a "reset" option on your monitor?

labbats · Post by **labbats** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:24 am

It can't be the monitor.
When it says "Turning off in 5 seconds" it is without bars. When I run anything, it has bars. Not to mention the bars only came about after I updated my windows stuff. I'm exasperated.

Gargamellow · Post by **Gargamellow** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:46 am

service pack 2 is giving lots of people troubles..can uninstall?

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:50 am

Boot in to safe mode if you can and uninstall the video driver from within the device manager. Reboot back in to normal windows and see if it will reload the driver for you. It should boot in to a regular "VGA" mode and then redetect your card. If it does not, I would suggest opening the case, taking the card out and reseating it. Does your video card have a fan on it? If so, when you have the case open, make sure that fan is running... sometimes the fans crap out on the cards and cause them to overheat.

Gargamellow · Post by **Gargamellow** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:51 am

horendus · Post by **horendus** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:48 pm

Also, if you are still having problems sir, change your display drivers to "Standard VGA Adapter" see if you still get the lines using those, if so it may be a hardware problem, or a deeper more sinister plot to dominate your computer.

Almas · Post by **Almas** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:08 pm

Service pack 2 just made my computer reset over and over, I could never get into windows, so I just reformated and kept services pack 1.

labbats · Post by **labbats** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 1:54 pm

I'm going out of town for a few days. I don't want to fiddle with too much right now, so I'm hoping Microsoft gets their shit together in the next week and fixes my problem for me.

Thanks for all the advice though. I'll no doubt use it if I have to next week.

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:27 pm

I just got finished fixing my fucking laptop after installing their latest "updates".

Its that spyware removal shit they are trying to install.

I couldn't even boot into motherfucking safe mode because of it. Reinstalled over top of it and said fuck it all.

-Adam

horendus · Post by **horendus** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:00 am

My PC updated fine, wonder if my laptop will like it.