If anything is wrong it's probably a bad sector on the hard drive. You should run can disk in "thorough" mode to confirm this. As for the cursor issue it sounds like a corrupted video driver. Go into safe mode and uninstall the driver and change it back to VGA. Go back into normal mode and reinstall the driver.
--- In [email protected], "Etop Udoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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/
