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I ran spybot last night & removed some advertising junk that was installed from chat programs, etc. that is used on this pc... shut pc overnight. It has the ATI all-in-wonder 9600 Radeon installed in it.
When I booted this morning, the monitor cycled thru various colors, changing from blue/green/red, screen flashed on & off & then finally stopped withe the desktop being very washed out & the text/icons was basically unreadable.
I rebooted the pc, same effect. SO I thought great, now the monitor or vid. card is going bad. I shut the pc down because we were going away, came back approx. 5 hrs. later, booted & all is well (so far).
I tested the display features under dxdiag, & all worked ok, & I downloaded a video testing pgm. which is supposed to stress the video card, & so far all is well...
Could something removed thru spybot have caused the screen glitch? I wouldn't think so, but with todays' malware, I suppose anything is possible...
I have never seen symptoms such as this; any ideas on what might have happened?
When I booted this morning, the monitor cycled thru various colors, changing from blue/green/red, screen flashed on & off & then finally stopped withe the desktop being very washed out & the text/icons was basically unreadable.
I rebooted the pc, same effect. SO I thought great, now the monitor or vid. card is going bad. I shut the pc down because we were going away, came back approx. 5 hrs. later, booted & all is well (so far).
I tested the display features under dxdiag, & all worked ok, & I downloaded a video testing pgm. which is supposed to stress the video card, & so far all is well...
Could something removed thru spybot have caused the screen glitch? I wouldn't think so, but with todays' malware, I suppose anything is possible...
I have never seen symptoms such as this; any ideas on what might have happened?
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