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yare
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
507 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-25 03:18:46
June 25 2008 03:08 GMT
#1
Hello,

Sorry if this seems long winded, but I wanted to make sure people have as much information as might be needed.



I know there might be a few people here with some ideas to help with my troubles. This all started about 2 weeks ago. I download music and soccer games with bitcomet or emule. I come to tl.net, on-line e-mail accounts, myspace, gomtv/sc2gg/youtube/whatever for vod's.

I have a P4 2.20 Ghz with 1 gb of memory. GeForce 4 TI 4600 with 512 mb of memory. Edit: The computer was built in 2002.

Two weeks ago I was surfing gomTV, and my screen starts to blink. It would appear normal, then the computer would "freeze" for about 3 seconds, next the screen would go black. The screen would then come back, during which time I could move my cursor, but any actions were very sluggish (and mostly never finished). This occurs for about 5 minutes then the screen goes black and never comes back.

That's my problem. I first thought ugh I got a virus. So I logged in safe mode and ran AVG, but this found nothing. I ran SDfix to see if it was a trojan, but this found nothing. I logged safe mode with networking and ran housecall and panda. These found nothing outside of the normal cookie alerts. I was still thinking it might be a virus, so I reformat my computer.

I finally load windows and start the updating process. At this point the screen resolution is moderately low. Then SP2 updates, and after the reboot my old problem comes back!! At this point SP2 apparantly causes screen resolution to increase greatly.

So a small recap: 1) thought it was a virus, nothing detects it, reformatted. 2) problem does not appear in safe mode or with reduced resolution.

I removed SP2, and windows launched at the previous reduced settings. I installed my video drivers. These also caused the default resolution to increase, and my problem to return.

Now I have launched in "VGA mode", and it is killing my eyes. Hopefully I can find some help.

Here is what I think the problems could be:
1) Virus -- I think I've ruled this out, but maybe it remains through formatting.
2) Video card is overheating -- I've opened the case and placed a small fan blowing across the video card, so I don't think this is the case.
3) Video card concedes the war against BW (needs to be replaced) -- This would be sad since it means I must buy another (could be wasted money if it doesn't fix the issue).


Thanks for any advice,

yare

Xiberia
Profile Joined September 2007
Sweden634 Posts
June 25 2008 03:17 GMT
#2
If you high level formatted, then it is possible that a virus has been able to survive. If you did a low level format however, nothing should have been able to survive unless you have several partitions and didn't format them all. It could be a hardware issue also, but it's hard to diagnose without physical access.
yare
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
507 Posts
June 25 2008 03:21 GMT
#3
I must say my ignorance is astounding. I used the recovery portion of the XP cd to get to a command prompt and typed format c:\. I assume this is a high level format since it seems simple. What is a low level format, and what sort of boot disc would I use? If an old DOS boot disc where would I find one?
Vedic
Profile Joined March 2008
United States582 Posts
June 25 2008 03:22 GMT
#4
It's entirely possible that an overheat caused damage.
I tried to commit seppuku, but I accidentally committed bukkake.
Xiberia
Profile Joined September 2007
Sweden634 Posts
June 25 2008 03:31 GMT
#5
Well, what you'll probably want to do if you want to completely wipe your drive is to zero-fill your hdd, and the utilities needed for that should be on the manufacturer's website. You should check for hardware issues first though. Overheating is a likely cause, as was stated above.
Mooga
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States575 Posts
June 25 2008 04:12 GMT
#6
Sounds like a software conflict to me. Try unchecking programs in safe mode until you find the program(s) that are causing the problem. You should probably try this before messing with you hardware.
imthemaster
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States115 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-25 04:59:03
June 25 2008 04:57 GMT
#7
I think I had the same problem as you try installing this program.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_81.98.html

This definately should be the answer dl it follow the instructions, and your problem should be solved.
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