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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.

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 There might have been a update to the system that outdated your current drivers.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.

wilco

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Is there a "reset" option on your monitor?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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