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It was always like that, but lately it's becomen a big problem.
Sometimes the screen turns into lots of lines, mostly horizontal. It has the original colours, you can see the arrow moving, all the programs are working,
but everything is almost invisible from behind these lines.
It doesn't happen randomly. It's, I believe, never happened all of the sudden, but only when there's a new program launching, using entire screen. That is:
primarily 1) when the computer is turned on
2) when the computer screen-saver turns itself on
3) when I launch Diablo II, and sometimes also Civ4, also perhaps something different. It happens on the start, when the intro films commence. Sometimes then it's enough to click, and the next film, or the game will load properly.
I recall that with some game (EU2?) if the problem occured, and I minimalised the game using the windows key, I received an OK monitor, meaning that only this particular program was affected.
The only way of dealing with it is turning computer off and then on again. Usually you only had to do it once, or thrice, but lately it's been stuck turning on affected by this program for like 300 times, I've spent hours turning it off and on.
Sometimes it turns on right, so it seems, makes a disk check, and THEN starts a problem, or even before that, just after the screen with logo of the computer producer. And sometimes the logo appears ok in the lower part of the screen, but changed in the upper one, and then turns bad altogether.
The upper part of the screen seems more affected in general.
Here's how it looks. Yes, yes, dirty screen.
Sometimes the screen turns into lots of lines, mostly horizontal. It has the original colours, you can see the arrow moving, all the programs are working,
but everything is almost invisible from behind these lines.
It doesn't happen randomly. It's, I believe, never happened all of the sudden, but only when there's a new program launching, using entire screen. That is:
primarily 1) when the computer is turned on
2) when the computer screen-saver turns itself on
3) when I launch Diablo II, and sometimes also Civ4, also perhaps something different. It happens on the start, when the intro films commence. Sometimes then it's enough to click, and the next film, or the game will load properly.
I recall that with some game (EU2?) if the problem occured, and I minimalised the game using the windows key, I received an OK monitor, meaning that only this particular program was affected.
The only way of dealing with it is turning computer off and then on again. Usually you only had to do it once, or thrice, but lately it's been stuck turning on affected by this program for like 300 times, I've spent hours turning it off and on.
Sometimes it turns on right, so it seems, makes a disk check, and THEN starts a problem, or even before that, just after the screen with logo of the computer producer. And sometimes the logo appears ok in the lower part of the screen, but changed in the upper one, and then turns bad altogether.
The upper part of the screen seems more affected in general.
Here's how it looks. Yes, yes, dirty screen.
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