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November 6, 2007 at 11:20 AM
gsutherland

Video Card Problem

by gsutherland . Updated 17 years, 8 months ago

I ahve a Dell Inspiron 9300 with a geforce go video card. Just randomly while in the middle of playing WoW, the screen freezes up and I have to do a force restart. When it started up the lettering was all chopped up and letters were missing, and there was a bunch of colors shooting across the screen its little squares,then when it got to the logon screen, it screen went black and steyed black. So I forced booted again, and starting in safe mode, when I tried taking a print screen, of course it didn’t catch that part of the screen. So I ran my virus scanner (Kasperkey) and it found a couple trojan virus’, but nothing pertaining to my video card. I also check the even viewer to see if anything was there about the force boot, and nothing their wither. After checking the virus’ I rebotted normally, and same thing happened, still the colors across the screen, and it going black at the log on screen. So then I forced booted again and ran in safe mode. So this time I disabled the geforce card and rebooted and this time it when threw the logon screen and I could log on, but i’m still getting the jumbled and missing letters, and the colors across my screen. I’m guessing its a problem with my video card, but when I uninstalled and reinstalled, and tried finding updated drivers, none of it worked. I’m lost on what to do now. Dont really feel like reformatting, only becuase I dont want to reinstall WoW and go threw all teh patching and disk 1 disk 2 disk 3 type of thing. Someone help.

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