Originally posted by orangutanWhat do you mean by 'adapter'? Is that the chip you are talking about the 82815? I will take a look at that. Also what do you mean to pull the RGB levels as high as you can get them, where do I find RGB adjustments? I only saw that kind of adjustment on photo editing software, haven't a clue where to find that in the computer. Could this kind of problem bleed over to reboot? I have to reboot twice, the first time I reboot and hit outlook express, it freezes and the screen goes blank, then a reboot brings everything back till the next time the res goes nuts. It seems now maybe not even related to Myspace. I was gone for two days and the kids were also and my wife only goes to pogo games and it still went reswire on her.
Try this -
Your graphics driver is probably interlaced? This brings the RGB level towards the max and the dub goes all to hell - check if you've got the 82815 chipset. If this is the case then it's more likely to be an adapter problem than a driver (The DAC usually renders the bios 'unobtainable' which is a bore).
Switch the resolution to the lowest se ...[text shortened]... n responsive and this takes a complete power cycle before the settings 'take'.
good luck.
Could this be a heat related problem? I assume you think the 82 series is giving this problem. Have you seen it before,this kind of thing?
I went to an online support site and the guy gave me a real answer, will know for sure tomorrow: Bad AGP video card slot.
He said put in a PCI video card and it will work fine. He says the system sees something wrong with the video and resets to the lowest res possible to reduce system resources, Also mentioned a site where you can download a boot cd, www.ultimatebootcd.com which has a lot of utilities for testing HD and memory, he said run that first, turn off comp, restart with boot cd and run tests, if HD and memory are both ok, then for sure its the AGP slot itself. Makes sense.
Originally posted by sonhousedoes your motherboard have a agp slot you could try the monitor on?
I went to an online support site and the guy gave me a real answer, will know for sure tomorrow: Bad AGP video card slot.
He said put in a PCI video card and it will work fine. He says the system sees something wrong with the video and resets to the lowest res possible to reduce system resources, Also mentioned a site where you can download a boot cd, www. ...[text shortened]... and run tests, if HD and memory are both ok, then for sure its the AGP slot itself. Makes sense.
btw... i dont thing its the website, asp slot just gets hot after so much time, i would say coincidence it always happens when the kids are on... dont tell em that though.... make em feel bad
Originally posted by eatmybishopYou must not have read my post, the gist is the AGP slot ITSELF is bad.
does your motherboard have a agp slot you could try the monitor on?
btw... i dont thing its the website, asp slot just gets hot after so much time, i would say coincidence it always happens when the kids are on... dont tell em that though.... make em feel bad
I have to get a PCI card. It has no internal video so that is the only choice.
Originally posted by sonhouseI had this problem after playing quake 3 on my computer about 5 years ago. 4 bit color and low resolution, I didn't discover the cause
I get this really awful res level, 640X480 but even worse is it resets to 4 bit color. This happens after my kids go to their myspace account. Weird thing is I have one too and it never does that. What is even worse, the only way to reset the color is to restart the comp. It doesn't respond to the video setting routine. And even worse than that, when I do r ...[text shortened]... s are wireless. Don't SEEM to have a virus, at least one that all those progs can find. HELP!
Originally posted by ivan2908Interesting. This is the kind of post I have been looking for, similar problems. What did you end up doing? Chuck the comp completely?
I had this problem after playing quake 3 on my computer about 5 years ago. 4 bit color and low resolution, I didn't discover the cause
It seems the answer is the video card slot being bad, the comp tries to compensate by lowering the res and the answer being to get a video card of the other variety, PCI or AGP. I am going to follow the guy's suggestion of the ultimatebootcd.com thing first. Ran out of CDroms though, have to get some, needed them anyway.
Originally posted by sonhouseconfused! am i right in saying your motherboard doesnt have integrated video and only an open AGP expansion slot?
You must not have read my post, the gist is the AGP slot ITSELF is bad.
I have to get a PCI card. It has no internal video so that is the only choice.
it is this slot itself that is faulty???
when you say pci do you mean a pci graphics card??? that's going to be very slow.... either that or you mean pci express card...
still confused... 😛
btw... are you sure it is the agp slot... maybe more fans are needed..?
Sonhouse,
Greetings, if the kids are using mp3 download engines like gnuella or lime wire, they can run havoc on the rest of your computer. Also , the search engines on my space. Make sure they quit any of those applications when not in use. I've been told to completely dump limewire, but I still use it sometimes to learn tunes.
Originally posted by gregsflatI have now gotten conflicting opinions even from the pro's. One guy says the AGP video SLOT is bad, another guy says XP is corrupted and the only way to cure it is to format the HD and start over with a fresh copy of XP.
Sonhouse,
Greetings, if the kids are using mp3 download engines like gnuella or lime wire, they can run havoc on the rest of your computer. Also , the search engines on my space. Make sure they quit any of those applications when not in use. I've been told to completely dump limewire, but I still use it sometimes to learn tunes.
I wonder if I uninstall Limewire, if the problem would go away. That would be nice, just tell the kids not to use lime. Or maybe myspace. If it is myspace, it is in the way the kids use it. My own version, I just go to other musicians and ask to be friends or not, or listen to their music. The kids download pictures and such. I queried myspace about this issue but got no response.
Could it be they are trying to hide from the issue. Thats why I came here with this to see if other people have had this problem. One guy reported the same kind of issue with his video but he didn't say what he did about it, if anything. One thing I got though, one pro recommended www.ultimatebootcd.com and another download that allows the burning of an ISO file to make this bootable CD which has tons of utilities, the ISO is 115 megs and the download site was going REAL slow, took almost an hour to get it but I downloaded that and the ISO burner and that part went like clockwork, I now have the CD and checked RAM, HD and other things on comp. Its a great CD. I highly recommend it to anyone who is competent to download and use these utilities. I also recommend www.sysinternals.com, another site with tons of utilites, just downloadable exe files like file monitors and the like, performance utilities, lots and lots of stuff. Bought out by Microsoft but it still seems to be a good site in spite of that. Don.
Well for some news: I was able, with the help of the people at Nvidia, to do a real driver update. I had thought if you went to the update site, the software would replace the driver but it seems not. It would go completely through the update process including restart the computer to finish the update install but when I would go to device manager, the old one was still there. So Nvidia support gave me a link to a site that fully removes the old driver and then you install the newest one. I had thought that under those conditions, the screen would just go blank, but that was not the case. The resolution did not even change and the new install went through completely.
Then, the kids did their thing on their login with one exception to help with troubleshooting: They went to Limewire only and did not go to Myspace at all.
So within 24 hours, the bug came back. This time, new driver and no myspace for sure.
One other note: The reboot may not be at fault as I thought either.
I noticed one process using the device manager, TSP services. exe was taking up 60-70% of the CPU space during reboot. So this time I let that one go till it wound down and then checked my email, outlook express, and this time everything was fine, no screen freeze like before. Not sure what that all means though, if there is an XP problem or what. But the next step is to try a PCI video card I got at Best Buy. Will do that later today. If that doesn't work, then there is just about only two possiblities left: corrupted XP or a bad motherboard. If the PCI card doesn't fix it and format and reinstall XP doesn't fix it, this computer is going in the trash bin.