Computer problem...

DETAILKING · 09-12-06, 07:31

I was surfing the web last night and the picture on the monitor just faded away to black and then the monitor light turned yellow as if no signal at all was going to it., I rebooted a few times, and it reboots as normal, goes to the black windows screen as XP is loading, and as soon as it gets to the blue windows screen before your desktop loads, the same thing happens....dark screen and the monitor light goes yellow as if no signal is there but the computer is still on. There is no picture but I don't even think windows is fully loading because I don't hear any sounds,etc like normal when it does.

I was able to get into windows with no problem and my desktop using safe mode. I tried to do a restore from a restore point of last week, but the same thing happens when I try to load windows as normal. One time I got an error my display driver could be responsible for system instability and a drawing operation was unable to complete. I tried to update or roll back my video card driver in safe mode but I don't have a better driver than it has already, and there was nothing for it to roll back to. I think possibly my video card is dead but not sure how to tell. The next thing I was going to do was to uninstall the video card, reboot and see if windows recognizes it. Do you have any advice on what I can try next?

chml17l · 09-12-06, 07:58

I'd try to elimnate any hardware possibilities first before changing any software/driver settings unless you recently installed any video software or updates to your video drivers. Try swapping to another working monitor if you can. If it is not the monitor, you could try swapping out the video card next.

94BlkStang · 09-12-06, 08:51

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Originally Posted by DETAILKING

I was surfing the web last night and the picture on the monitor just faded away to black and then the monitor light turned yellow as if no signal at all was going to it., I rebooted a few times, and it reboots as normal, goes to the black windows screen as XP is loading, and as soon as it gets to the blue windows screen before your desktop loads, the same thing happens....dark screen and the monitor light goes yellow as if no signal is there but the computer is still on. There is no picture but I don't even think windows is fully loading because I don't hear any sounds,etc like normal when it does.

I was able to get into windows with no problem and my desktop using safe mode. I tried to do a restore from a restore point of last week, but the same thing happens when I try to load windows as normal. One time I got an error my display driver could be responsible for system instability and a drawing operation was unable to complete. I tried to update or roll back my video card driver in safe mode but I don't have a better driver than it has already, and there was nothing for it to roll back to. I think possibly my video card is dead but not sure how to tell. The next thing I was going to do was to uninstall the video card, reboot and see if windows recognizes it. Do you have any advice on what I can try next?

Disable the video card and use VGA mode as the default setting and see if you get a picture then. If so, it could be as simple as a corrupt video driver (you can download that from the internet) or possibly a video card. What card are you running?

DETAILKING · 09-12-06, 09:26

This is in my spare machine. It's a Gforce 4 Ti4200 128 MB.

How do I disable the video card and go into VGA mode during a normal reboot?

94BlkStang · 09-12-06, 10:11

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Originally Posted by DETAILKING

This is in my spare machine. It's a Gforce 4 Ti4200 128 MB.

How do I disable the video card and go into VGA mode during a normal reboot?

What i would do first is uninstall your graphic driver and then go to the website of the card manufacturer and download the latest graphic driver for your card. Here's a link on instructions to uninstall the graphic driver and then there is a tab at the bottom for a link on how to install a graphic driver. If this fails, then I would assume that maybe there is a problem with your card and a new card is in order. Good luck.

http://www.playtool.com/pages/uninst...uninstall.html

DETAILKING · 09-13-06, 07:12

Thanks guys,

I think I have virus or some sort. I was able to remove the drivers and boot up normally, I updated all the drivers, and then the same thing happened.......this virus I have seems to corrupt drivers (sound and video went). I did the whole process again, and noticed that my firewall was blocking like 100+ attempts to dial out through explorer. I did a virus scan and downloaded a few other virus scanners and cleaned my machine, and it found a few trojans, but it's still happening, and now I can't even connect to internet, it reroutes anything that is trying to connect to internet to some 0.0.0.0.0 IP address....ugh. I think I am gonna do a clean install on my main hard drive. If I back up all my important files on my second harddrive in the machine....will that be fine through the clean install on the main drive? Also, does anyone know of any internet restoration tools I could try to get my internet back before I reinstall windows?

Thanks guys,

Eliot Ness · 09-13-06, 08:09

A clean format and install are often quicker than messing with a lot of infections. Just make sure you run a good virus and spyware scan on the files you back up.

Sometimes the removal of spyware messes up your Internet connectivity because registry entries get removed or corrupt. A free program I have used in the past that has worked well is Winsock XP Fix.

Good luck!

Other links:
http://www.iup.edu/house/resnet/winfix.shtm
http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/...re/repair.html

Sci-Fi · 09-15-06, 07:21

I saw that problem a few weeks ago. It ended up being a bad power supply. No more messages about the video card drivers causing errors.