Screen with stripes

[Guest]

Recently I have had a problem at boot up. The bout up proceeds OK to Log in
and after Login the screen appears with many different size vertcal stripes
of different colors and widths. I have never seen it on a computer before.
The screen is frozen, CTRL,ALT,DEL does nothing, I have to turn off
manually, boot up in safe mode, then restart and it will usually boot
normally.
Any ideas as to cause??
George
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Dave Patrick]

Sounds like driver corruption or the graphics adapter may have failed. Try
F8 at startup and "Enable VGA Mode"

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| Recently I have had a problem at boot up. The bout up proceeds OK to Log
in
| and after Login the screen appears with many different size vertcal
stripes
| of different colors and widths. I have never seen it on a computer
before.
| The screen is frozen, CTRL,ALT,DEL does nothing, I have to turn off
| manually, boot up in safe mode, then restart and it will usually boot
| normally.
| Any ideas as to cause??
| George
| (e-mail address removed)

 

[GTS]

Is this a laptop?

 

[Guest]

No, This is a desktop computer, Clone, no brand name.
George

 

[r.antioch]

Hello George
Are the vertical stripes a sort of morse code looking or solid stripes
Antioch
'You cant educate pork'

 

[Colon Terminus]

I see this a lot with ATI graphics cards.
It's an indicator that the graphics card is on the road to complete failure.

 

[Guest]

The stipes are solid and I think I do have an ATI graphis card in this
computer, I will check and see.
Now it is turning to stripes when I click on START, but if I click on an
icon in the tray, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, it works OK.

I will check the ATI card.
Thanks
George

 

[Guest]

You were correct, it was a bad ATI card, thanks for your help.
George

 

[Colon Terminus]

You're welcome and thanks for the feedback.

You were correct, it was a bad ATI card, thanks for your help.
George

 

[Guest]

I'm not shur if u fixed it, but check the monitor setting in the control
pannel.