"what's this squiggly green line"

[Tyson]

Help

As i am a student, i am constantly on my puter, all off a sudden this frustrating piece of plastic/metal locks up on me and i loose valuable work. A squiggly green line runs across the screen, i press ctrl/alt/delete which works sometimes to reboot this piece of s--t. Can anyone guide me through this frustrating period.

Regards
tyson

[YODA74]

Some system info would help here! And what exactly where you doing ,what program etc.
have you D/L anything latley like before this just started to happen?
how old is the machine,is it under warrenty? Have you run a virus scan?
Does the computer like you http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Post back with that we'll see if we can help you out here.


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Death has come to our windows.

-- Jeremiah 9:21
(undoubtedly a Biblical reference to a Microsoft product!)

YODA74@carolina.rr.com

[Tyson]

System info, pent 111, windows 98 s/e, 320.0 mb ram, 2yrs old, no warrenty, it locks up in any program from being on the net to working in m/soft word, i have not D/L anything of late, AGV boot scan on start up, and recently ran BO detect and no viruses were found. But recently changed from 56k to 320k, would this cause it to lock up???

thanks for your help

regards

tyson

[Dazman]

Could be possibly a corrupt graphics driver?, monitor power probs, or Even a missing or bent pin in the monitor to pc cable...

Could be heat problem from the card..does the cards fan work properly??

I dont know if any of this will work, but worth looking at