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Cannot start-up XP - virus or not?
Name: triona Date: August 17, 2006 at 04:48:40 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: Celeron/512mb Product: Dell
Comment:
Hi Folks, I need help. My brother was browsing some free music download site yesterday and the monitor of our home pc suddenly went garbled and turned into a multicoloured mess. On re-start, 2 horizontal lines appeared at the top of the screen, followed by fuzzy multicoloured vertical lines...no XP start-up..can't do anything! Does this sound like a virus, or something like a graphics card failure to you guys?? Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Triona
Name: Ray Peate Date: August 17, 2006 at 05:14:17 Pacific
Reply:
I would suspect video card - have you another monitor to plug in and test???
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Response Number 2
Name: triona Date: August 17, 2006 at 05:44:32 Pacific
Reply:
I'm afraid not...i'll see if i can borrow one and give that a go..thanks!
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser4Real Date: August 17, 2006 at 16:51:24 Pacific
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If you can get into safe mode... Try a system restore....you have nothing to lose at this point. It's always a good way to start. Tap f8 repeatedly at bootup to get safe mode
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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