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I've got a 5 year old Dell 4100 machine that has been working fine.
However, now the video is "smeared" - it has dark strips where ever a band
of dark color exists on the screen. When it first happened the computer
hung up and I had to reboot. Then the screen came up with gibberish and a
screen full of the number "8"s. After cool down and ever since, it works
but with the streaks. I have proven it is not the monitor or the cable by
replacement so I assume it is the video card. The rest of the computer runs
just fine. I plan on getting a new computer soon but would like to fix this
problem so I can use the Dell 4100 for a time while I look for the new
machine.
Any suggestions as to what the problem is, how to fix it or what type of new
video card I could use in the Dell (if that truly is the problem)? The 4100
is a 800MHz, 512MB machine with a AGP 32MB NVidia geForce video card. I'm
not interested in upgrading this old machine but just want it to work for a
while with video that allows me to easily read e-mail and surf the net.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Ray
I've got a 5 year old Dell 4100 machine that has been working fine.
However, now the video is "smeared" - it has dark strips where ever a band
of dark color exists on the screen. When it first happened the computer
hung up and I had to reboot. Then the screen came up with gibberish and a
screen full of the number "8"s. After cool down and ever since, it works
but with the streaks. I have proven it is not the monitor or the cable by
replacement so I assume it is the video card. The rest of the computer runs
just fine. I plan on getting a new computer soon but would like to fix this
problem so I can use the Dell 4100 for a time while I look for the new
machine.
Any suggestions as to what the problem is, how to fix it or what type of new
video card I could use in the Dell (if that truly is the problem)? The 4100
is a 800MHz, 512MB machine with a AGP 32MB NVidia geForce video card. I'm
not interested in upgrading this old machine but just want it to work for a
while with video that allows me to easily read e-mail and surf the net.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Ray