Renegade23216
Senior member
I have a Sony VAIO computer which has been acting up for several months. P4, 512 RDRAM, GeForce 3. First, the system restore CD uses Windows Milenium. If I try to upgrade the system to XP, it hangs on the bootup screen for about 3 minutes before booting. So for some reason or another I can't use XP on the system because it takes too long to boot with it.
Also, when using Milenium. The following happens. I'll be doing anything normal... Internet, Games, Whatever.... and all of a sudden the screen will completely go weird. The computer doesn't seem to be *completely frozen*, but you can't see the mouse anyway cause the screen is covered in fuzz. It's kind of like the fuzz you'de see on a TV station that you don't receive. That kind of crap.
Anyway, when that happens I just have to reboot to use it again.
Also, sometimes when I boot up with Milenium, instead of booting normally it will stay at a black screen with a cursor in the upper left for several minutes. If not that, it will stay at that screen forever (until powering up again).
What the heck's up with this comp? Think it's a video problem that causes these things because of how the screen goes weird and has to be rebooted sometimes? I would think something broken on the video card but since it also takes ages to boot sometimes I don't know what it could be. Ideas please on how I can fix this?
Also, when using Milenium. The following happens. I'll be doing anything normal... Internet, Games, Whatever.... and all of a sudden the screen will completely go weird. The computer doesn't seem to be *completely frozen*, but you can't see the mouse anyway cause the screen is covered in fuzz. It's kind of like the fuzz you'de see on a TV station that you don't receive. That kind of crap.
Anyway, when that happens I just have to reboot to use it again.
Also, sometimes when I boot up with Milenium, instead of booting normally it will stay at a black screen with a cursor in the upper left for several minutes. If not that, it will stay at that screen forever (until powering up again).
What the heck's up with this comp? Think it's a video problem that causes these things because of how the screen goes weird and has to be rebooted sometimes? I would think something broken on the video card but since it also takes ages to boot sometimes I don't know what it could be. Ideas please on how I can fix this?
