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Re:Display problem
« Reply #90 on: April 02, 2004, 18:36 »
It's been on for 12 hours now and no hint of a problem.  I'm out tonight so the machine will be inactive long enough to re-create the instability if it is going to happen.  If I spot any more swallows I will let you know on my return.   ;D

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Re:Display problem
« Reply #91 on: April 02, 2004, 19:03 »
OUT??[/i]   >:( >:( ;D
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Re:Display problem
« Reply #92 on: April 02, 2004, 20:13 »

If I spot any more swallows I will let you know on my return.   ;D


Forget about swallows Clive - just don't count your chickens ;D :D


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Re:Display problem
« Reply #93 on: April 02, 2004, 22:57 »
A second swallow just flew past.   ;D

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Re:Display problem
« Reply #94 on: April 03, 2004, 08:13 »
Naturally it was all too good to be true.  Today's message is:

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Re:Display problem
« Reply #95 on: April 03, 2004, 10:27 »
Information on STOP 0xC2 errors can be found here

Still looks like a driver or memory issue Clive :(


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Re:Display problem
« Reply #96 on: April 03, 2004, 11:41 »

A second swallow just flew past.   ;D



Did you say swallow...gulp  :o  ;)  You sure your not trying to pull a swift one Clive  ::) ;D

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Re:Display problem
« Reply #97 on: April 03, 2004, 14:59 »
:aarrgh:  I can tell you that it's driving me cuckoo Camstop.   ;D

I've downloaded Sandra's RAM tester and found that it was very easy to use.  It showed no errors at all and claimed that the RAM was unlikely to be at fault.

As Adept says, everything is still pointing to faulty drivers and I tried downloading the debugger.  Unfortunately it's an 8Mb file and although it claims to download onto a 1.4 Mb floppy??? it won't install as it says I should use a larger floppy.  

What I'm going to do next is to cut that acceleration back a bit again since it certainly appeared to have an effect yesterday.  I don't recall a single day in the past year when the problem hasn't occurred and it really seems too much of a coincidence that it didn't happen yesterday following my furtive fiddle of the previous day.

Edit:  The accelerator is now just under half.

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Re:Display problem
« Reply #98 on: April 04, 2004, 07:56 »
This is today's BSOD but I think I'll turn the reboot back on now as I'm sure it's safer for my computer.

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Re:Display problem
« Reply #99 on: April 04, 2004, 09:24 »
Clive ..have you ran DXDIAG ?? to see if there is anything showing up in that.

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Re:Display problem
« Reply #100 on: April 04, 2004, 11:26 »
Thanks for the input Hook.  I just tried it and it claims there are no problems.

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Re:Display problem
« Reply #101 on: April 04, 2004, 11:40 »
NP Clive   ;)

Just a thought though  ;D quote from saint Adept earlier on

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Chganging the refresh rate won't help as you have an LCD panel. It needs to be 1024x768 at 60KHz to give the best picture.


I noticed in the DXDIAG picture yours was set at 800 x 600, 32 bit 60Hz

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Re:Display problem
« Reply #102 on: April 04, 2004, 11:41 »

This is today's BSOD but I think I'll turn the reboot back on now as I'm sure it's safer for my computer.


Doesn't make any difference Clive - your PC still crashes either way. At least with a BSOD you get some information that it has happened.

Is there any further information in the Event Log about this STOP 0xC5 error? All I can find the knowledgebase relates to Windows 2000 and Logitech mouse drivers ???


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Re:Display problem
« Reply #103 on: April 04, 2004, 15:23 »
There are only the usual references in the event log at the time of this morning's crash Adept.

However, I was particularly interested to notce the reference to Logitech mouse drivers.  If you remember, when I first had this machine, it came with an optical mouse, and I had problems when using the scroll wheel.  The screen would freeze up after a while and double images would appear.  I began a thread about it, but probably on a long-since defunct forum where many of us were members.   ;D  It was only after I switched the optical mouse for an older mouse which I had squirreled away (as yer do) that the "collapsing screen syndrome" started happening.  It is always the use of the scroll wheel that makes the problem take place.

However, before we all start shouting "Eureka!" I should also remind us all that if the machine is just left switched on after first bootup, it will often result in a completely blank bright grey screen.

I no longer have the optical mouse but it would be an interesting experiment to see what would happen if I could swap back to it.  If my son is no longer using it, I'll ask him to bring it home next weekend, but it may be useful if I bought another mouse to try out anyway.

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Re:Display problem
« Reply #104 on: April 04, 2004, 15:50 »


Just a thought though  ;D quote from saint Adept earlier on

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Chganging the refresh rate won't help as you have an LCD panel. It needs to be 1024x768 at 60KHz to give the best picture.


I noticed in the DXDIAG picture yours was set at 800 x 600, 32 bit 60Hz


I just tried changing that Hook but it makes everything too small to read without a magnifying glass.   ;D


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