hi folks
I've had a Pro-Star 9096(call it sager, clevo or whatever) with Quadro FX 1400 GO for a while, never had any problems. It is exactly one year old and the warranty ended last week.
Now there are some minor glitches on the first Windows XP load screen. When Windows boots up, there are many visible dots, in about 6 vertical lines across the screen. Dragging a Window across the screen makes the dots draw on it, like etch-a-sketch, as seen in this link:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...Untitled-1.jpg
And when scrolling up or down web pages, the lines of dots join up into straight lines. Refreshing or reopening the window gets rid of the pattern, but the dots are still there and it happens again.In browser, both IE and Firefox, or image viewer ACDSee, or photoshop when scrolling by line in either direction, there will be red,yellow,green short dashed line on the screen, if scroll by page accumulating more and more.
I have tried formatting the drive, reinstalling WindowsXP. Dots and lines disappeared for the first time. Later, I installed the VGA drivers that comes with the laptop and the glitches appeared again. I tried to update the drivers no matter. Whenever I install any driver, the problem occurs.
No idea what's wrong, but I'm guessing it's some sort of
hardware trouble? Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Anyone experienced something like this?
I've had a Pro-Star 9096(call it sager, clevo or whatever) with Quadro FX 1400 GO for a while, never had any problems. It is exactly one year old and the warranty ended last week.
Now there are some minor glitches on the first Windows XP load screen. When Windows boots up, there are many visible dots, in about 6 vertical lines across the screen. Dragging a Window across the screen makes the dots draw on it, like etch-a-sketch, as seen in this link:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...Untitled-1.jpg
And when scrolling up or down web pages, the lines of dots join up into straight lines. Refreshing or reopening the window gets rid of the pattern, but the dots are still there and it happens again.In browser, both IE and Firefox, or image viewer ACDSee, or photoshop when scrolling by line in either direction, there will be red,yellow,green short dashed line on the screen, if scroll by page accumulating more and more.
I have tried formatting the drive, reinstalling WindowsXP. Dots and lines disappeared for the first time. Later, I installed the VGA drivers that comes with the laptop and the glitches appeared again. I tried to update the drivers no matter. Whenever I install any driver, the problem occurs.
No idea what's wrong, but I'm guessing it's some sort of
hardware trouble? Can anyone tell me what the problem is? Anyone experienced something like this?
Really not sure what to do
