Me again. I just got the system from the woman tonight. One thing, it was DUSTY! After blowing out the system, I powered it up. What happens is that when going in to non-safe mode, after the loading XP window, the screen blanks for about 10 seconds, then the signal to the monitor cuts off. After another 10-15 seconds, the system reboots.
It will boot into safe mode ok. In safe mode, I modified it so that it will not reboot on a blue screen. When I am in safe mode, I cannot view any events in the event viewer and the device manager shows nothing. Any ideas? It does blue screen now with a message something like: "error seems to be caused by the following file: nv4_disp". I am researching this error now. Seems to be sort of common. The stop code in case anyone is interested is: 0x000000EA (0x870F8908, 0x86DCA108, 0xF7AD0CBC, 0x00000001) I have yet to scan the drive, but that is in the works. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Bobby -----Original Message----- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:59 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Weird PC problem. Thanks for the reply. I will probably scan the system and check the video settings and drivers. I'll let everyone know what I found. Thanks, Bobby -----Original Message----- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Joe User Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:09 AM To: Bobby Heid Subject: Re: [H] Weird PC problem. Hello Bobby, Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 9:06:41 PM, you wrote: > 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. > 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? I doubt that's an infection nor a result of a password bypass unless it wasn't obtained from a credible source. I would think this is a driver issue esp where everything is fine in safe mode. Have you tried having them reload the drivers for the video card? See if there are any gamma tweaks going on also. Report findings. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
