Al
Mon Jun 02 02:22:00 PDT 2008
Thanks guys. The driver thing didnt make a difference. I just wanted to make
absolutly sure that the state of the monitor wouldnt affect the windows
loading time, its just strange that the graphics card has trouble loading
windows at first but runs new games as well as it ever did. I'll upgrade my
card.
Cheers
Al
"JS" wrote:
> Yep, he did. Then he should try another video card.
> At least this will eliminate one source of the problem.
>
> JS
>
> "smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:a1bbec44-483e-4c66-80f2-6f6283f223f3@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> On May 31, 9:56 pm, "JS" <@> wrote:
> > Start by downloading and installing the most recent version of the Video
> > driver for your PC.
> >
> > JS
> >
> > "Al" <A...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >
> > news:D8572D06-8576-4524-BB46-EA2E1BE15DF1@microsoft.com...
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hey all, recently when I start my computer I get a green rolling screen
> > > which
> > > after 20 seconds flicks to the black bios startup. During the bios check
> > > the
> > > screen flashes green as if it's degauzing several times...then after 5
> > > minutes of the windows loading screen windows starts up in a really slow
> > > manner, the deskop appears, then goes blank, then the icons and tool
> > > bars
> > > appear.
> >
> > > My computer has always started really quickly and I've never had the
> > > green
> > > gauzing effect...even when the monitor powers down it fades to a bright
> > > green
> > > dot in the middle of the screen. Once the tedius loading it out of the
> > > way
> > > windows actually works fine, and even high spec games like CoD4 run
> > > without
> > > error (but the screen does flash green whilst changing resolution to
> > > play
> > > them)
> >
> > > I assumed that it was the monitor itself, but that doesnt explain why
> > > windows is taking ages to load...is it a problem with the graphics card?
> > > do
> > > you think it's hardware or software based?
> >
> > > I'd really appreciate any advice
> > > Thanks a lot
> > > Al
> >
> > > Specs
> > > AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
> > > Radeon Sapphire x1600
> > > AM2NF3-VSTA motherboard- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> The OP was stating that this problem occurs duing the boot ip prior to
> the BIOS boot sequence. At this point, the PC does not use drivers.
>
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