[TRLog] Somewhat off topic HELP Pse

[GilBaronW0MN]

It sounds like you did all you could with the software. It sounds like a
hardware problem to me.
Perhaps your graphics card. Can you run in Safe Mode? If you can you just
might have a bad driver that you reloaded but it could also be the video
card.

You may be out of luck if it is an integrated card or you may be able to
disable it and put in a new card.

I would certainly try safe mode (F8 at boot time ) and if it runs then it is
almost certainly a bad driver or a bad video card.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-trlog@contesting.com [mailto:owner-trlog@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Larry Menzel
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 23:10
> To: trlog@contesting.com
> Subject: [TRLog] Somewhat off topic HELP Pse
>
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> You all have such great computer knowledge maybe you can help me
> with this one.
>
> After about 18 mo of solid performance, my PII  machine is giving me a
> headache.  It's locking up as soon
> as I try to launch a program, especially a graphic one like
> Photoshop.  First symptom was when I could
> no longer drag and drop files in Windows Explorer.  Now if I try to do
> that, it locks up, too.
>
> So...I tried usual trouble shooting things.
>
> Pulled all boards except video card...no joy
> Reloaded Widows...no joy
> Tonight I managed to get everything backed up to another drive and
> REFORMATED the C drive and reinstalled Windows.
>
> Guess what?  Still freezes up, just moving files and/or creating
> shortcuts.
>
> OK...do I have a motherboard problem or a hard drive problem.  Seems to
> lock whether I'm trying to move
> files from either my C or D drives.
>
> CD Rom works and loads software, but as soon as I try to do
> anything in the
> graphical interface, BINGO...locks up.
>
> HELP.
>
> Larry, N0XB
>
>
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