This may be an easy one for somebody out there, but I just haven't seen it in a while and don't remember the cause or how to fix it. Computer has an Amptron all-in-one Motherboard with a Celeron 466 processor and 190 megs of ram according to the system info, and about 500 meg of harddisk space free out of maybe 3 or 4 gig. First of all, this computer is running Win98 and recently has been briefly freezing up from time to time - just for about 10 sec to 15 sec and everything is OK again. No continuous freezing up but random. I repair a corrupted database file in a program that is constantly running on this machine and figure maybe it hits that program and doesn't know what to do - or maybe a bad spot on the harddrive perhaps - so the freezing up may have gone away, not sure yet. Next, came in one day and the video screen had been resized somehow from 800 x something to maybe 640 x something - not sure which. Ok, resized it back to the correct setting, saved it, popped out of the utility to the desktop and all of a sudden strange blinking characters of all colors appear all over the screen. Computer is pretty frozen at this point, the mouse may move but nothing runs if you click on it - so nothing to do but hit power button or pull the power plug on it. Now I'm thinking either bad computer memory or a bad video card. Perhaps a virus ? any ideas ? -- ==================================================================== | Etop Udoh | Http://www.geocities.com/sdruid11 | | P.O. Box 1054| Http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/sdruid | |Snellville, Ga| Http://home.bellsouth.net/p/pwp-sdruid | | 30078 | Http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/bit/9122 | |--------------| Http://home.earthlink.net/~sdruid11 | | A+ Certified Net+ Certified | | \/ \/ | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | !! ..........Peace and Love to All......... !! | ==================================================================== If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
