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Bought one of these for my daughter for college 4 years ago. She's
now out and I am upgrading the operating system to XP Pro. While
doing so, I have noticed a screen wriggle pattern (sorry no better
term comes to mind) that resembles grain on a wooden board. This
occurs when the hard drive is reading or writing and when the mouse
is moved. It is bad on 1024x768 but higher and lower resolutions
dramatically reduce even almost eliminate the wriggling pattern. The
monitor is a Gateway 19 inch CRT monitor. This has occured both with
the Windows ME and Windows XP operating systems, the latter now
installed.
I know there is no separate video card on this system. It has 192Mb
RAM and I understand the video chip is using system RAM. I had hoped
upgrade to XP would solve this problem but it has not. Any similar
expericnes and/or solutions anyone can share would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sterling
Bought one of these for my daughter for college 4 years ago. She's
now out and I am upgrading the operating system to XP Pro. While
doing so, I have noticed a screen wriggle pattern (sorry no better
term comes to mind) that resembles grain on a wooden board. This
occurs when the hard drive is reading or writing and when the mouse
is moved. It is bad on 1024x768 but higher and lower resolutions
dramatically reduce even almost eliminate the wriggling pattern. The
monitor is a Gateway 19 inch CRT monitor. This has occured both with
the Windows ME and Windows XP operating systems, the latter now
installed.
I know there is no separate video card on this system. It has 192Mb
RAM and I understand the video chip is using system RAM. I had hoped
upgrade to XP would solve this problem but it has not. Any similar
expericnes and/or solutions anyone can share would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sterling