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[Mommy]

I have some strange computer problems that started 2 days ago. I need some fix help...especially for the bolded item. Any suggestions y'all could provide would be greatly appreciated. thanks

green line running down the right side of my screen when I print screen, the line doesnt show up. Sounds like an issue with my monitor, right? I only thought this shit happened with CRT's but this is an LCD monitor that is only 4-5 months old. What the hell? Is there any way that it could be a non-monitor related issue? Also, I have a replacement plan on this monitor (thank god) so if it is that, no worries.

secondly, stuff on my desktop is acting goofy. One program wont open at all and if I save a pic to my desktop it wont open with windows picture viewer. If i right click and open with another program, it opens fine. I dont know if I got a virus or if my hard drive is starting to fail. Initially, I thought hard drive, but the pic opens just not normally so yeah...

Also, items on my other hard drive are acting weird. If i drag files to another folder, it doesnt display them properly. see pic. documents on the right middle part of the folder are sitting on top of other items. What the fuck is going on?


I detest most anti-virus software out there except for trend micro, but i dont have the money to buy that. Anyone know of some free virus scan software... trend micro used to have a virus scan for free, but I could only get the spyware scan to run the other day. For some reason, my computer wont let it do a full scan. Weird. Im just baffled by all these problems happening all of a sudden. Im actually starting to think that my video card may be going out now that I think about it. Could this be a possiblity? Thanks guys

[Mommy]

I'm not starting this with you. Most of the time I will have your back on arguments, but sometimes I think you just start stuff because its your pastime. I am taking suggestions on what it could be, but if you say condescending things like comparing me to some old person I have never even met when I already said Im going to try reformatting then yeah, Ill defend myself. Jonathan offered advice. Spex answered one of my questions. Lance offered advice. Pebkac answered a question. Your post offers nothing to this thread or to helping me with my problem. I bothered asking for their valuable input. I told you why its not the monitor. It happened on re-start. That suggests to me that its not the monitor, but the video card. DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr

[impala454]

I'm not starting this with you. Most of the time I will have your back on arguments, but sometimes I think you just start stuff because its your pastime. I am taking suggestions on what it could be, but if you say condescending things like comparing me to some old person I have never even met when I already said Im going to try reformatting then yeah, Ill defend myself. Jonathan offered advice. Spex answered one of my questions. Lance offered advice. Pebkac answered a question. Your post offers nothing to this thread or to helping me with my problem. I bothered asking for their valuable input. I told you why its not the monitor. It happened on re-start. That suggests to me that its not the monitor, but the video card. DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr

I didn't mean to be condescending. I know a lot of what I type on here ends up reading that way. Yeah I threw in a little joke, but if I'd have been saying that to you in person it wouldn't have sounded condescending. I just typically don't enjoy it when people (not just you, lots of people do this to me) ask a question about some computer/electronics thing, and then they don't like the answer and tell me why I'm wrong.

It's my opinion that your green line is your monitor. Monitors display a picture via vertical and horizontal scan lines. They're all sent out from the electronics inside the monitor, and if one of those leads goes bad you will get a line. It could also be your video card, but your video card having a heat sink instead of a fan is not a problem, it's the way it was designed. There are tons of video cards out there that don't have fans. Typically when video cards go bad due to overheating, your image will stutter or start blinking out. I gave you a couple of suggestions of things to try, watching a full screen DVD (which is using the directshow APIs in windows) or playing a 3d video game (which changes your resolution & refresh rates up) to see if it goes away. You can also go to your monitor properties and attempt to change the refresh rate and see if it goes away (not a fix but it'll help you determine if it's the monitor).

If you want me to continue to help I will but don't come back and tell me you think it's the motherboard and I'm wrong and I'm a horrible person and jackass, etc, etc if you want help. I enjoy helping people with this stuff, just don't like getting flak back from the person I'm trying to help.