Recently my computer has been doing odd things.
I have not added any new programs or any new hardware. One day it works the next day it doesnt.
ok here are the issues,
at first white little lines started appearing. at times just small little lines, then they started to appear everywhere, then other colors of lines.
eventually the screen would fill with them and the comp would freeze.
sometimes the lines would appear like say the firefox symbol on my desktop would be in tact, but a few inches away, a few lines of color that were the firefox symbol... does that makes sense.
i cleaned all the vents of any dust, and have the side panel off. All the fans seem to be spinning, graphics card is spinning, powersupply fan is spinning, I will make sure the processor fan is spinning as well. It is still happening. But like I mentioned before, the lines have always been present, sometimes it causes the system to freeze, or I sometimes, get that error of hte display driver. But neither of those have happened in the past few hours. It has had lines, but I have been able to move things over them and the lines go away.
I will say that I have not been using it really at all, it has just been sitting there, when the lines show up I go over and swipe the screen, not really sure why I do this but I do, I guess I do it to see if it froze...
so I dont know if I started using it if it would freeze or I would get display driver....
I could get the temp of the processors too if that would help they seemed normal when I checked...
thanks for all the help so far, this is just driving me crazy. I just really want to fix this.
Also I have been at times, not every time mind u, but sometimes a dialog balloon shows up and says A display driver has stopped responding and been recovered.
nvlddmkm is the driver.
my drivers are up to date.
vista is up to date
system vista home x32
video card nvidia 8800
4gb ram
not sure what else needs to be said. Hoepfully I can get some ideas as to how to fix this problem
Thanks
also want to add, that, when it first happened with these lines, I thought it was because of an update, so I used system restore, and after that, everything was fine
then a few days later it happened again, I checked and windows update had added another update and installed, so I system restored, and it was fine again for a few days, until I could go and make sure I had all the drivers, figuring it was something to do with an update...
but it still happens even when I am fully updated...
