at start up system freezes and screen begins to go white

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The system doesnt use the same drivers that are used by XP in IE,sounds
hardware,video card maybe.Try booting to xp cd,recovery,press enter for
password,then type:CHKDSK C: /R When its thru type:EXIT
Try another video card and see what takes place,its always returnable.

"Brad Dryborough" wrote:

> Running windowsxp and when I turn the computer on a white horizontal line
> appears on the screen and then the screen begins to go white. It actually
> looks like half an eyeball appears. If I hit any key it unfreezes and the
> computer boots up fine other than I have to hit a key once again to get the
> mouse pad to work properly. Also when the computer tries to hibernate it
> turns off and then immediately turns on again and often the mouse pointer is
> frozen. I have a sony vaio grx550. Would this be a software or virus type
> problem or hardware?
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> Thanks Brad
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