Hey,
One of my wife's friends called tonight with a problem that I have never heard of. This PC (that I have not seen yet) is pretty old (she thinks it could be over 10 years old). She told me that it had been in the shop about 3 years ago and had been upgraded to XP, so it must have had new hardware put in it. Anyway, when booting up and it is showing the XP loading screen, the screen starts blinking on and off. She says that it might stay off 2-3 seconds at a go. Even after logging in, when moving the mouse, it causes the screen to blink off. She says that it does not blink on and off when she goes into safe mode. One other possibly key piece of information is that apparently, her son had tried to get around her XP password with some sort of utility (she did not know what he tried). She thinks that this stuff did not start happening until after he tried that stuff. So, could it be some sort of infection? Maybe the PS or video card? She replaced the monitor and it still does the same thing. Or maybe a driver issue of some sort since it works in safe mode? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bobby
