Video goes wibble then recovers at next reboot - Why?

[MeGustaXL]

My Acer laptop, XP SP2, suddenly switched to really blocky, large, pixellated icons with washed-out colours.

Next time I booted it up, it was fine but said the system had recovered from a serious error.

What's happened? Will it happen again? Why? What can I do to prevent it?



Chris

So you ride yourselves over the fields,
and you make all your animal deals,
and your wise men don't know how it feels...

Ian Anderson

 

[Lemon13]

sounds like a problem with the graphiccard drivers, it also might be that the graphiccard is faulty (temp. probs)

check event viewer for errors

 

[MeGustaXL]

Thanks Lemon13 for the quick reply, but

check event viewer for errors

how do I do that, and what might I expect to see?

Chris

So you ride yourselves over the fields,
and you make all your animal deals,
and your wise men don't know how it feels...

Ian Anderson

 

[wahnula]

To view Event Viewer:

Right-click My Computer->Manage->Event Viewer->Look under Application and System. There will be a red X for critical system/application errors. Look back to the last time of day when the problem occurred.

Tony

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