I've been encouraged to post here re: my hardware travails! Here goes...
I booted up my older Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 which for years had been working fine. Then, one day I booted up and got these vertical color bands where you couldn't see anything else bu the bands. I then re-booted and opened Word 2003 (as Libre Office take a longer time to open and the laptop would just shut Word down, then when I re-booted it would shut the laptop down while I was writing in Word. Then, I tried opening Libre Writer and it just froze – never opened so I had to press the power button to re-boot. I moved the laptop power adapter from the power strip to the UPS then moved the laptop so it’s connected directly into a wall outlet in another room. Still no good. I then powered the laptop in an outlet in the top outlet (not the bottom one even though the last testing showed the outlet (top/bottom)were both fine. I then brought the laptop to work and got the same results when trying to run it. Someone said I might have to delete all my video drivers and r-install them. I have no idea where to find those drivers on my laptop, nor which ones to delete nor where I would find the correct replacement video drivers nor if that's even a correct solution. I've got 3 GB Ram running. It's a nice 17" screen so I don't want to toss the laptop and it ran for 3+ hours at a friend's work space - with 4 programs open at the same time - Publisher, GIMP, the Brave browser running a YouTube video and another program to test the laptop and it all worked fine. Thanks for your thoughts/ suggestions. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
