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My sister has a Dell computer that is like a pentium 800 mhz I think. She is using Win98 SE Their computer started having problems where while it was booting up you could see everything clearly but once it was to the main screen everything was way blurry and it was impossible to use First I though maybe their monitor went bad. I borrowed an old one from a friend and took that over there and it was still blurry. I took the computer and monitor home and booted to safe mode and reloaded Win 98 over the top of the old one but it was still blurry. I then ran Adaware and spybot in safe mode and then everything was working fine. Took it back to their house and it worked for a few weeks and then the same problems. I took it home and it ran fine here. I ran an AVG virus scan which found 17 viruses so I decided to format the hard drive and start clean. I formatted and reloaded everything and loaded AVG anti virus, adaware and spybot and everything checked out fine. After I reloaded it my sister took the computer home and she had exactly the same blurry problems with any monitor she tried. My only guess at this point was maybe she had electrical problems or something in that room at her house because it works fine here so she moved it to another room and still the screen is all messed up I even had her buy a new power strip in case that was bad Do you have any clue at all what could possibly be going on? I am totally stumped on this one. I never expected it not to work after I wiped it clean. I plan on giving her my computer when I buy a new one but that is going to be a while since I just had surgery. Thanks for any help Steve -- Steve's page of Fun links http://www.stevesfunlinks.com/ See Steve with famous people like the Bradys http://www.flash.net/~steve84/index1.htm Steve's page of over 200 Disney links! http://www.flash.net/~steve84/Disney.htm |
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The fact that Spybot and Adaware fixed the problem suggests a recurrent
malware infection. If you get the display problem corrected, start the computer in question, go to http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp , click on "Scan for updates" and let Windows Update download and install all the critical updates for the system. Ben "Steve84" wrote in message . net... Hi My sister has a Dell computer that is like a pentium 800 mhz I think. She is using Win98 SE Their computer started having problems where while it was booting up you could see everything clearly but once it was to the main screen everything was way blurry and it was impossible to use First I though maybe their monitor went bad. I borrowed an old one from a friend and took that over there and it was still blurry. I took the computer and monitor home and booted to safe mode and reloaded Win 98 over the top of the old one but it was still blurry. I then ran Adaware and spybot in safe mode and then everything was working fine. Took it back to their house and it worked for a few weeks and then the same problems. I took it home and it ran fine here. I ran an AVG virus scan which found 17 viruses so I decided to format the hard drive and start clean. I formatted and reloaded everything and loaded AVG anti virus, adaware and spybot and everything checked out fine. After I reloaded it my sister took the computer home and she had exactly the same blurry problems with any monitor she tried. My only guess at this point was maybe she had electrical problems or something in that room at her house because it works fine here so she moved it to another room and still the screen is all messed up I even had her buy a new power strip in case that was bad Do you have any clue at all what could possibly be going on? I am totally stumped on this one. I never expected it not to work after I wiped it clean. I plan on giving her my computer when I buy a new one but that is going to be a while since I just had surgery. Thanks for any help Steve -- Steve's page of Fun links http://www.stevesfunlinks.com/ See Steve with famous people like the Bradys http://www.flash.net/~steve84/index1.htm Steve's page of over 200 Disney links! http://www.flash.net/~steve84/Disney.htm |
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I downloaded all the win98 updates right after I reloaded windows. Spybot and adaware did not fix the problem the second time around Ben Myers wrote: The fact that Spybot and Adaware fixed the problem suggests a recurrent malware infection. If you get the display problem corrected, start the computer in question, go to http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp , click on "Scan for updates" and let Windows Update download and install all the critical updates for the system. Ben "Steve84" wrote in message . net... Hi My sister has a Dell computer that is like a pentium 800 mhz I think. She is using Win98 SE Their computer started having problems where while it was booting up you could see everything clearly but once it was to the main screen everything was way blurry and it was impossible to use First I though maybe their monitor went bad. I borrowed an old one from a friend and took that over there and it was still blurry. I took the computer and monitor home and booted to safe mode and reloaded Win 98 over the top of the old one but it was still blurry. I then ran Adaware and spybot in safe mode and then everything was working fine. Took it back to their house and it worked for a few weeks and then the same problems. I took it home and it ran fine here. I ran an AVG virus scan which found 17 viruses so I decided to format the hard drive and start clean. I formatted and reloaded everything and loaded AVG anti virus, adaware and spybot and everything checked out fine. After I reloaded it my sister took the computer home and she had exactly the same blurry problems with any monitor she tried. My only guess at this point was maybe she had electrical problems or something in that room at her house because it works fine here so she moved it to another room and still the screen is all messed up I even had her buy a new power strip in case that was bad Do you have any clue at all what could possibly be going on? I am totally stumped on this one. I never expected it not to work after I wiped it clean. I plan on giving her my computer when I buy a new one but that is going to be a while since I just had surgery. Thanks for any help Steve -- Steve's page of Fun links http://www.stevesfunlinks.com/ See Steve with famous people like the Bradys http://www.flash.net/~steve84/index1.htm Steve's page of over 200 Disney links! http://www.flash.net/~steve84/Disney.htm -- Steve's page of Fun links http://www.stevesfunlinks.com/ See Steve with famous people like the Bradys http://www.flash.net/~steve84/index1.htm Steve's page of over 200 Disney links! http://www.flash.net/~steve84/Disney.htm |
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:43:14 GMT, Steve84 wrote:
Hi My sister has a Dell computer that is like a pentium 800 mhz I think. She is using Win98 SE Their computer started having problems where while it was booting up you could see everything clearly but once it was to the main screen everything was way blurry and it was impossible to use First I though maybe their monitor went bad. I borrowed an old one from a friend and took that over there and it was still blurry. I took the computer and monitor home and booted to safe mode and reloaded Win 98 over the top of the old one but it was still blurry. I then ran Adaware and spybot in safe mode and then everything was working fine. Took it back to their house and it worked for a few weeks and then the same problems. I took it home and it ran fine here. I ran an AVG virus scan which found 17 viruses so I decided to format the hard drive and start clean. I formatted and reloaded everything and loaded AVG anti virus, adaware and spybot and everything checked out fine. After I reloaded it my sister took the computer home and she had exactly the same blurry problems with any monitor she tried. My only guess at this point was maybe she had electrical problems or something in that room at her house because it works fine here so she moved it to another room and still the screen is all messed up I even had her buy a new power strip in case that was bad Do you have any clue at all what could possibly be going on? I am totally stumped on this one. I never expected it not to work after I wiped it clean. I plan on giving her my computer when I buy a new one but that is going to be a while since I just had surgery. Thanks for any help Steve This is strictly a guess, so anyone else please offer their ideas. I wonder if a neighbor or something nearby is creating interference. Perhaps a magnetic field or a powerful radio transmitter. Another possibility could be bad wiring somewhere in the house that affects the various circuits regardless of the room. If anyone has a voltmeter, it may be worthwhile to take a reading. It seems like the same problem would bother the TV, so maybe that's not a possibility. Has she ran AVG again by taking the PC elsewhere? Maybe the original viruses weren't activated instantly and got triggered by running something she reinstalled. If it's not too difficult, I would have her bring the monitor to your house or any friend nearby and test that piece alone on a known good PC. If the monitor works fine, I would think its a power or video card issue. If she has another working PC in the house, try connecting the monitor to that one. If she can get a working PC anywhere, try bringing that to her place and see what happens. This really is a strange problem, so I hope others can offer better ideas to help you solve the dilemma. |
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Good Guy98 wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:43:14 GMT, Steve84 wrote: Hi My sister has a Dell computer that is like a pentium 800 mhz I think. She is using Win98 SE Their computer started having problems where while it was booting up you could see everything clearly but once it was to the main screen everything was way blurry and it was impossible to use First I though maybe their monitor went bad. I borrowed an old one from a friend and took that over there and it was still blurry. I took the computer and monitor home and booted to safe mode and reloaded Win 98 over the top of the old one but it was still blurry. I then ran Adaware and spybot in safe mode and then everything was working fine. Took it back to their house and it worked for a few weeks and then the same problems. I took it home and it ran fine here. I ran an AVG virus scan which found 17 viruses so I decided to format the hard drive and start clean. I formatted and reloaded everything and loaded AVG anti virus, adaware and spybot and everything checked out fine. After I reloaded it my sister took the computer home and she had exactly the same blurry problems with any monitor she tried. My only guess at this point was maybe she had electrical problems or something in that room at her house because it works fine here so she moved it to another room and still the screen is all messed up I even had her buy a new power strip in case that was bad Do you have any clue at all what could possibly be going on? I am totally stumped on this one. I never expected it not to work after I wiped it clean. I plan on giving her my computer when I buy a new one but that is going to be a while since I just had surgery. Thanks for any help Steve This is strictly a guess, so anyone else please offer their ideas. I wonder if a neighbor or something nearby is creating interference. Perhaps a magnetic field or a powerful radio transmitter. Another possibility could be bad wiring somewhere in the house that affects the various circuits regardless of the room. If anyone has a voltmeter, it may be worthwhile to take a reading. It seems like the same problem would bother the TV, so maybe that's not a possibility. Has she ran AVG again by taking the PC elsewhere? Maybe the original viruses weren't activated instantly and got triggered by running something she reinstalled. If it's not too difficult, I would have her bring the monitor to your house or any friend nearby and test that piece alone on a known good PC. If the monitor works fine, I would think its a power or video card issue. If she has another working PC in the house, try connecting the monitor to that one. If she can get a working PC anywhere, try bringing that to her place and see what happens. This really is a strange problem, so I hope others can offer better ideas to help you solve the dilemma. Thanks for the suggestions. To make things stranger their computer started working again yesterday whithout anything being done to it to try to fix it. I am hoping it will keep working for awhile -- Steve's page of Fun links http://www.stevesfunlinks.com/ See Steve with famous people like the Bradys http://www.flash.net/~steve84/index1.htm Steve's page of over 200 Disney links! http://www.flash.net/~steve84/Disney.htm |
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On Feb 20, 7:16 pm, Steve84 wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. To make things stranger their computer started working again yesterday whithout anything being done to it to try to fix it. I am hoping it will keep working for awhile No way that software or viruses have created a blurry monitor. No way because of how hardware works. Meanwhile, it is a Dell. It has comprehensive system diagnostics on hard drive and provided free on their web site. Diagnostics that test hardware without Operating System complications. It is one of the first tests performed - to detail how those diagnostic patterns appear on a monitor. Magnetic field to adversely affect a monitor are so strong and so nearby that ... well remember all that hype about magnetic fields causing childhood leukemia? These - not high tension utility wires - are what they were hyping over. Somewhere in floor or wall would probably be a large current wire - maybe to electric heat, electric dryer, heat pump, or stove. Volts exist but no current; obviously no magnetic fields. When significant current flows, then a strong magnetic field exists. That is the theory. Clearly not yet sufficient to have a fact. Put the system on a long extension cord and more it around the room. First monitor must be located where it does not cause problems. Leave monitor off for many minutes. Then when long enough and when turned on, the degaussing circuit demagnetizes monitor. Once the monitor is clear (degaussed) somewhere, then move the system to find where magnetic fields distort the picture. Which picture? Obviously a picture from the comprehensive hardware diagnostic; a picture designed to make problems obvious. Now we have experimental evidence To have a fact, notice theory and experimental evidence are both required. Anything less is only speculation. Now report back. |
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