re: Monitor problems: venetian-blinds-like display Monday, March 24, 2003 at 7:46 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by carol (1 messages posted) I have the same "Venetial Blinds" with my ME driven laptop (although it looks more like corduroy to me! I too adjusted refresh rate and acceleration as well as dumped and reloaded the driver but nothing worked. Mine happens all the time, though, not just after the computer warms up. Refreshing the screen makes the lines go away but they soon return after interecting with the screen. Also, the mouse leaves footprints when I drag an icon. I contacted Dell and they told me it was a conflict with the registry in Windows ME. I was told to do a dirty reinstall of ME and the problem will be solved. Haven't tried it yet. Did you? Did it work? I'd like to hear from you. Thanks. Carol On Sunday, September 8, 2002 at 11:09 pm, michael wrote: >I recently installed an 8M AGP video card into my computer (Pent II 300 running Win >ME). It seems to work fine most of the time. However, every once in a while, on >occasions when I need to reboot my computer, I experience problems. The bios text >does not appear on the monitor during reboot, and the windows screens display vertical >bands (like Venetian blinds). I have checked the display settings and the video >drivers before and after the event and nothing seems to have changed. I have also >reinstalled the video drivers several times but that does not seem to correct the >problem. However, on all three occasions, the problem has corrected itself after >I shut the system down overnight. I think the problem could be due to one of the >following causes: >the video card is overheating (never heard of this before; do you think this can >happen?); >a faulty monitor cable; >maybe Windows needs several reboots to correct itself; >hardware clash between old monitor and slightly newer video card. Written in response to: Monitor problems: venetian-blinds-like display (michael: Sunday, September 8, 2002 at 11:09 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Monitor problems: venetian-blinds-like display (michael: Sun, Sep 8, 2002, 11:09 pm) re: Monitor problems: venetian-blinds-like display (carol: Mon, Mar 24, 2003, 7:46 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum