Video display drops color quality during bootup

External Since: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 4

Running XP Home on a 1.2GHZ Athlon with .75GB SDRAM and Nvidea 5700 graphics.
On bootup screen looks ok until about half of tray icons load and then
screen goes black and reappears with 8 bit color (1024x768). I suspect XP is
damaged. Tried reinstalling driver for card. SAme. Used to work fine. Any
thoughts?

Thanks,

Bob

External Since: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 2

I would try a windows repair. If that fails, and if you have a spare
laptop HDD laying around, install windows on another HDD on that machine
just to make sure the monitor isnt malunctioning. As far as i know, it
might be possible for the monitor to malfunction for a certain video
mode? maybe the video card and monitor arent sync'ing properly?

RC Bob wrote:
> Running XP Home on a 1.2GHZ Athlon with .75GB SDRAM and Nvidea 5700 graphics.
> On bootup screen looks ok until about half of tray icons load and then
> screen goes black and reappears with 8 bit color (1024x768). I suspect XP is
> damaged. Tried reinstalling driver for card. SAme. Used to work fine. Any
> thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob