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| Thread ID: 81948 | 2007-08-11 21:18:00 | Pyjamas | Guerilla Surgeon (6848) | Press F1 |
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| 579702 | 2007-08-11 21:18:00 | Twice in the last couple of weeks my computer (XP home) has not booted properly. All I get is a screen pattern that looks vaguely like someone's stripey pyjamas. It seems to be ok after a hard restart, but I wouldn't want it to happen very often. Is this a common problem? | Guerilla Surgeon (6848) | ||
| 579703 | 2007-08-11 21:19:00 | It shouldn't be. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 579704 | 2007-08-11 23:19:00 | Sounds like a video ram problem, either on your video card, or if you have on-board video, your system ram. You could try another video card (or system ram cards) for known good ones, or have the computer looked-at professionally . :) It shouldn't be. You could try a little harder :groan: |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 579705 | 2007-08-12 04:07:00 | Or you could try just update the drivers | manvsmachine (11826) | ||
| 579706 | 2007-08-12 22:16:00 | As well as swapping out the video card (assuming your using one, not onboard??) I'd want to do a RAM test, download memtest (www.memtest86.com/), unzip it and burn it to a CD using imgburn (http:). Boot up off it, let it run through overnight or for a few hours. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 579707 | 2007-08-12 23:34:00 | Have had this problem with other pcs before. And it has always turned out to be a video card failure. :( as suggested above, try using the onboard video card, and see if the problem still persists. If it doesn't - unfortuantly you have a stuff gfx card. |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 579708 | 2007-08-13 06:51:00 | What is the monitor refresh rate set at? | Sweep (90) | ||
| 579709 | 2007-08-13 08:28:00 | What is the monitor refresh rate set at? Can't see this being a problem. If the refresh rate is set too high for the monitor it usually refuses to display. |
Bozo (8540) | ||
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