problems with the display on my monitor

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From: Wayne (Wayne_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:20:01 -0700

I am having problems with the display on my monitor. There are light gray streaks visible. These especially are noticable when I am using a text editor. These horizontal lines extend beyond the window, and they move when I move the window.

I noticed this problem earlier today. I have not installed any new hardware. I was away for 5 days, during which time the computer was powered down. When I returned I did a routine windows update, but I did *not* notice this problem immediately after that. I cannot see anything that could have caused this change.

I attached a different monitor, and the same problem was present. I also reinatalled the display adapter driver, per the windows help instructions. No change.

This PC is a few years old, as you will be able to see from the details below. I suspect some hardware is failing, although I do not know. What can anyone tell me?

HP Pavillion
AMD Athlon Processor
856 Mz
256 MB RAM

NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT

Win XP vers 5.1 SP 1

Thanks,

Wayne 

-- 
Wayne

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