I had a power outtage...

[Campbell]

So, this afternoon, I was sitting at my computer, surfing the internet and the power went out because of an accident with a downed power line.

This evening, when the power finally got back on, I started up my computer. After I got past the Windows XP loading screen thing, my moniter went black and then started up with this scratchy, staticy picture that no matter how many times I try, won't go away.

When I start up in Safe Mode, it's fine, I tried using the System Restore mode to restore to last week, but it still has that problem.. any way I could fix it, or am I ****ed?

 

[hjo3]

Sounds like some sort of hardware damage. Could be your video card (maybe it only has problems at higher resolutions/color-depths and that's why it looks fine in safe mode). Pull it out and try it in another machine, see if it's okay.

 

[amdskip]

Start swapping stuff and see what you can figure out.

Next thing you need to do is to invest in some sort of APC backup so this doesn't happen again.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: hjo3
Sounds like some sort of hardware damage. Could be your video card (maybe it only has problems at higher resolutions/color-depths and that's why it looks fine in safe mode). Pull it out and try it in another machine, see if it's okay.

Yeah, there could have been a surge either around the time of the outage, or else one when the power came back online. Do you have a surge protector? If so, what kind?