- Jul 20, 2004
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A few days ago I woke up to find my computer at the login screen with odd lines running across the monitor.
http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/232/badcomp1wn.jpg
My first thoughts were "Oh crap, my video card is bad."
I first restarted a few times, did a system restore to a few days ago. No luck.
Next I went into safe mode and ran my (updated) AVG Antivirus, along with Spybot S&D. I think it caught one bad file from a long time ago when I downloaded eXeem.
I rebooted, and it was fine. . . until the next morning (today). So I tried the same thing, I went into safe mode again, ran the anti-virus and Spybot. Neither found anything, so I rebooted. Still had the same problem. Tried to system restore again, no luck.
I have the feeling the problem has something to do with Window's auomatic updates. The only thing my computer does during the night is run AVG and update windows, every night at 3:00AM. Not sure how that has anything to do with my problem, or if it even does. But I thought the fact might help other people help me out.
If anyone has any suggestions to help me solve this problem, that'd be great.
Thanks a ton!
http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/232/badcomp1wn.jpg
My first thoughts were "Oh crap, my video card is bad."
I first restarted a few times, did a system restore to a few days ago. No luck.
Next I went into safe mode and ran my (updated) AVG Antivirus, along with Spybot S&D. I think it caught one bad file from a long time ago when I downloaded eXeem.
I rebooted, and it was fine. . . until the next morning (today). So I tried the same thing, I went into safe mode again, ran the anti-virus and Spybot. Neither found anything, so I rebooted. Still had the same problem. Tried to system restore again, no luck.
I have the feeling the problem has something to do with Window's auomatic updates. The only thing my computer does during the night is run AVG and update windows, every night at 3:00AM. Not sure how that has anything to do with my problem, or if it even does. But I thought the fact might help other people help me out.
If anyone has any suggestions to help me solve this problem, that'd be great.
Thanks a ton!