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Old July 2nd 04, 02:25 PM
Crazy Aizy
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Default strange vid problem, strange error


"heynow" wrote in message
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first off, sorry for such a long story but i felt that to
much info is better than to little. ;-)

hey all, need some help here. i was out of town for about
a week and my comp was off and unplugged for that time.
when i returned home everything was in normal working
order while working on the comp that evening, but in the
morning things went horribly wrong. anything video
related made strange multi-colored lines appear
horizontally on the screen in random groupings. when i
say anything video related, i mean full screen or
windowed, movies (no matter what vid player used), action
games (Battlefield 1942, Soldier of Fortune 2), other
games (Kyodai Mahjong), and even any web pages with video
in them. everything would be working normal and then as
soon as anything video happened the multi-colored
horizontal lines would appear and then disappear when the
video was shut off. the comp was in normal working order
before, during, and after the video, with the obvious
exception of the weird lines.


As you have a hardware problem unrelated to WinME OS, you may get more help
posting on a Newsgroup specifically for users of NVidia based video cards.
Try he alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
Unfortunately, from the symptoms you describe, your video card may be dying,
possibly bad RAM.