help! windows problem :(

[guyver01]

For some reason, every once in a while i'll lose the image on my start button, and the WINDOWS wording in the start menu...

here's a screen cap of the start button..or lack there of..

Start Button

any ideas what could cause it? and how to fix it?

 

[GoldenBear]

Hmm, seems like a video driver glitch? Are you using the latest drivers?

 

[guyver01]

yup.. got an nVidia and using the latest "detonator"

 

[bomb99]

how long have u left the computer on without shutting it off or restarting?

that happen to me b4, but once i restart is back to normal

 

[yakko]

Looks like low system resources. I had something similar happen a couple of times.

 

[GoldenBear]

I see..are you o/cing your CPU or video card?

 

[SinnerWolf]

that's an easy one....

possible causes
1. your registry needs to seriously be cleaned
2. you had too many programs running at the same time (low resources)
3. a program was stuck or looping and couldn't load properly
4. .dll confliction
5. you haven't rebooted since installing something
6. OR the most likely reason...you've done too much crap since you last turned your computer on and need to reboot!! <---ding ding ding

 

[guyver01]

possible causes
1. your registry needs to seriously be cleaned

possible..

2. you had too many programs running at the same time (low resources)

if IE is too many programs, MS sucks

3. a program was stuck or looping and couldn't load properly

possible...

4. .dll confliction

possible

5. you haven't rebooted since installing something

nope

6. OR the most likely reason...you've done too much crap since you last turned your computer on and need to reboot!! <---ding ding ding

it has been a few days since rebooting... but if &quot;websurfing&quot; is too much crap... MS Sucks.

 

[Pepsi90919]

i have a tnt2 m64 and am using the detonator 3 drivers. i get the same thing, sometimes.

 

[dabuddha]

im probably wrong but i think i read somewhere that people were having problems with the det 3 drivers

 

[divinemartyr]

I had the problem under win98 only. I never have this problem under win2k now but really saw no detriment to the problem itself so I always left it alone. I had the problem when running Detonator 6.31 drivers. If you are running the same version, try upgrading, maybe they have fixed this in later revisions. Definitely sounds like a driver problem with nVidia cards only.

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