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Posted by: gam3r
Somehow my family's computer got a virus. When ever xp boots up, there are a series of verticle green lines accross the screen. When it comes to the blue welcome screen, the screen begins flashing. Then, when xp finishes booting there are a series of green verticle lines following the mouse. When ever you open up a program it's all distorted. Then after a minute or so, the screen just starts flashing to the point where you can't do a thing. Does anyone know what this is? How do I fix it?
Posted by: gam3r
I did a system restore and reinstalled my video card drivers and it seemed to help, but there's still distortion on startup. I don't know what else to do!
EDIT: I found it using tend micro, but it couldn't remove it. The trojan is called
trojan.swfdl.a
and it's located in the IE temp folder. Anyone know what to do?
Posted by: p3ngu!n
That doesn't sound like a virus. It sounds like your video card is crapping out. Try a different card.
Posted by: pdnielsen
I would suggest going to www.avast.com and downloading and using the free home version of it to see if that can get rid of the trojan. I agree with p3ngu!n on the video card, but since Trend Micro found something it will be a good idea to get rid of it. Trojans are not good!
Posted by: gam3r
I have avast and it didn't pick anything up. I used euido in safe mode and that found it and removed the trojan. Thank goodness!
Posted by: matt.modica
Thats good. I would also clean out any temp internet files as well to ensure it doesn't come back.
Posted by: gam3r
Uh oh... There is still screen distortion. When you start up xp there are tons of periods covering the screen. Then in windows the screen starts flickeing non-stop... I'm doing a clean install now and I hope that fixes it. I'm going to die if it's a hardware related issue. Ifi= it continues after the clean install I will check inside... Any other ideas??
Posted by: eleanorstang
It sounds to me like there is a video card issue. Is this video card intergrated? If so then you may have a big problem. If the card is not intergrated, go get a piece of crap cheap video card for like 30 bucks and see if it stops the flashing and what not. You won't be able to use the crappy video card you buy for anything hence it being crappy but it may help you figure out the problem.
Posted by: p3ngu!n
Basically what eleanorstang is trying to say is that by using a different card you will find out if the problem is indeed the video card. If the problem goes away once you install the new card, you will need to find out if its a driver problem with your old card. Otherwise, it sounds like your video card is basically dying or is already dead.
Posted by: gam3r
Yes it was the video card DAMNIT. I reinstalled windows and went through all tha damn trouble. Bullshit. The card died. I replaced it with an old one and now I need to find a replacement.
The card that died was a agp geforce 400mx with 32mbs of ram.
I wanted to get this replacement card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814121542
Do you guys think this would be a good choice? The comp has a p4, clocked at something really low, 256mbs of ram. I don't expect the card to run at full capacity, but it's cheap and nice, what do you think?
Posted by: matt.modica
That would be a good choice.
Posted by: pdnielsen
Tiger Direct might have the 256MB version of the same card for around the same as NewEgg has the 128MB version if you're willing to wait 3 or 4 weeks for a rebate after you've bought it. AGP is getting "old" now and since the next version of Windows will require cards that are DX 10 compatible for serious game play I bought the 256MB one (because I didn't want to pay a lot for a card that will soon be obsolete) and so far so good.
Posted by: matt.modica
Since you are awating new technology and you previously were using an MX400, why not get this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16814131255
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