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Article #3Re: Video Card Virus?
From: Impmon
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 20:12
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 20:12
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On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 19:26:11 GMT, "Another User" <twashing@mail.comNOSPAM> typed: >I have a ELSA Erazor X graphics card with a nVidia GeForce 256 chipset. >Suddenly one day my screen went a tab bit darker and every window casted a >shadow horizontally across the screen. I asked a techie at CompUSA about it >and he said I may have a virus on the card. He said to get rid of the virus, >simply get a new card or fdisk my boot drive. I tried the latter and that >didn't help. I removed the card and dust busted it and the whole motherboard >thoroughly. Nothing. > >Any ideas? Do I really need a new card? What exactly could the problem be? The problem is you're depending too much on an incompentent CompUSA employee. Video card don't get virus. Since you fdisked your drive, it's likely you already reinstalled everything so that ruled out bad video driver, problem with Windows itself, etc. And the symptom you're describing sounds more likely your monitor may be failing. Try using the monitor on another PC. If you see the same thing, plan on getting a new monitor in the near future. If the monitor checks out fine, then your video card could be going bad. And next time, don't ask CompUSA any technical question! -- email link has been removed due to a flood of W32.Klez virus that kept trying to get in my inbox. All viruses are automatically removed by my ISP before reaching my inbox.
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