It could be that your video drivers got corrupted somewhere along the
line. Try to re-install the latest ones.


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:58:30 -0000, Etop Udoh <sdruid11@...> wrote:
>
>
> This may be an easy one for somebody out there, but I just haven't
> seen it in a while and don't remember the cause or how to fix it.
>
> Computer has an Amptron all-in-one Motherboard with a Celeron 466
> processor and 190 megs of ram according to the system info, and about
> 500 meg of harddisk space free out of maybe 3 or 4 gig.
>
> First of all, this computer is running Win98 and recently has been
> briefly freezing up from time to time - just for about 10 sec to 15
> sec and everything is OK again. No continuous freezing up but
> random. I repair a corrupted database file in a program that is
> constantly running on this machine and figure maybe it hits that
> program and doesn't know what to do - or maybe a bad spot on the
> harddrive perhaps - so the freezing up may have gone away, not sure
> yet.
>
> Next, came in one day and the video screen had been resized somehow
> from 800 x something to maybe 640 x something - not sure which.
> Ok, resized it back to the correct setting, saved it, popped out of
> the utility to the desktop and all of a sudden strange blinking
> characters of all colors appear all over the screen. Computer is
> pretty frozen at this point, the mouse may move but nothing runs if
> you click on it - so nothing to do but hit power button or pull the
> power plug on it.
>
> Now I'm thinking either bad computer memory or a bad video card.
> Perhaps a virus ?
>
> any ideas ?
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