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Re: O/T Computer troubles need ideas
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Posted by Howard H. on May 11, 2007 at 06:42:49 from (65.197.83.94):
In Reply to: Re: O/T Computer troubles need ideas posted by Jeff Oliver on May 10, 2007 at 21:54:44:
You might try another monitor on it - just for kicks. But you saying the initial Windows splash screen comes up with the status bar at the bottom tells me it is when the video card switches to "Windows mode" that it is failing. That usually is a bad driver. There isn't a way to "hook up" a laptop and get video like that. In the old days, you could hit a DOS command key, dump all the output to the printer as you typed, and watch what was going on that way, but no way to do that with Windows... The easiest other way would be to try another video card in it and hope it plug-and-played OK. If they had any inclination at all to buy a new PC, you can get a smoking fast Dell with 19" flat panel for less than $500 these days. For one that old, you usually can't justify putting much money in repairs into it... Howard
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