after Boot display is missing portions of the display

[Rachet]

I'm using XP, on an old machine. Entered password after the PC woke from hibernation, screen showed
a blue screen with an error message that could barely be read. All the words were missing portions of the lines. The message said the system driver was in a loop and the system was going to shut down to avoid damaging the computer.

All pages have broken text that are very difficult to read.

Bios and safe mode have the same problem.

I have a laptop with windows 7 that I can use.

I can't find my original xp cd and my backup is damaged.

Is there a way I can use my windows 7 laptop to make a disk to fix my xp PC?

Thanks
Rachet

 

[deustroop]

The system disk may be corrupted . Attach the xp disk to the laptop via an adapter so it is recognized by Win 7 then run Check Disk from a Command Line to Check for and fix Disk Errors.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872425.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

 

[VirtualLarry]

This PC that was "missing pieces from lines of text"... is it a desktop? Does it use integrated graphics, or does it have a dGPU (video card)?

If it has a video card, then your video card, video RAM, or power supply, may be on the fritz. Or maybe the card needs to be cleaned / dusted / re-seated / re-pasted.

If you are using integrated, then possible the system is overheating (likely), and/or the system RAM (which becomes the video RAM for the integrated graphics) is going bad, or needs to be re-seated.

 

[Rachet]

This PC that was "missing pieces from lines of text"... is it a desktop? Does it use integrated graphics, or does it have a dGPU (video card)?

If it has a video card, then your video card, video RAM, or power supply, may be on the fritz. Or maybe the card needs to be cleaned / dusted / re-seated / re-pasted.

If you are using integrated, then possible the system is overheating (likely), and/or the system RAM (which becomes the video RAM for the integrated graphics) is going bad, or needs to be re-seated.

 

[Rachet]

Thanks for the responses.

PC is a desktop

Asus P4P800 SE, Northwood P4 3.2, (DGPU) Sapphire Radeon hd 3850 AGP

took system apart
video card was dusted last week.
My onboard NIC stopped working and I replaced it with an old NIC card.

I should be able to get to the command prompt now.

Which would be better; chkdsk or sfc /scannow, or is it the same thing?



Update, I was able to get into safe mode and guessed correctly and was able to restore the system to 10 days ago, which
should have been fine. ...................... no change to graphics but the looping stopped and I can get into windows XP.

The problem is that there is 4 double lines that run from the top of the screen to the bottom spread evenly across the screen.

Anything that is within 1/4 inch of the lines is blurred by tiling. I removed the video display adapter from the system devices.
........................ no change to display.

Unable to run AVG, or Malawarebytes........ I get memory error

Running Super anti-spyware now, will try and find another video card to try.

 

[VirtualLarry]

If this is a dGPU desktop rig, then ... chances are, the video card (VRAM) is toast, or possibly your LCD monitor.

 

[Rachet]

It appears to be the graphics card, not sure if it is the drivers or as suggested, the vram.

I found a different graphic card and it works fine. Original card was an ATI card, the current card is Nvidia card.

When I get a chance I'll reformat the drive and re-install the original graphic card to verify it was the problem.

Thanks for your help

 

[bruceb]

No need to reformat the drive. As to retesting the original graphic card, I would not bother. They will die from time to time. Mine (a very old Nvidia) lasted about 14 years before it just gave up the ghost. The old Dell (sony type) CRT monitor called it quits about 3 weeks after the video card.