Re: Video Card Virus?

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From: Xenomorph
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 21:55

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Video Card viruses are a SERIOUS problem!

I once had a virus on my Voodoo Banshee card, and the only way I could get
rid of it was to wrap my card in tinfoil and install the MiniGLs.


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"Another User" <twashing@mail.comNOSPAM> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
> Thanx in advance,
> twashing@mail.comNOSPAM
>
> P.S. - I haven't tested the card in another machine because I do not want
to
> spread a potential virus.
>
>

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