Guest JoeWindows Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Hello, I have an Acer notebook with Windows XP . In normal mode, my display appears to be slightly corrupted. In safe mode, the display is perfect. Windows Help indicates that this could be an issue with my Bios and/or Driver. How would I go about correcting this? Thank You.
Guest peter Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Re: Corrupted Display Go to the Acer download site and look for new XP video driver for your specific notebook video peter "JoeWindows" <JoeWindows@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:04934287-CAF3-4DF4-BFC7-9EDFB8995FB4@microsoft.com... > Hello, > > I have an Acer notebook with Windows XP . In normal mode, my display > appears to be slightly corrupted. In safe mode, the display is perfect. > > Windows Help indicates that this could be an issue with my Bios and/or > Driver. How would I go about correcting this? > > Thank You.
Guest Malke Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Re: Corrupted Display JoeWindows wrote: > Hello, > > I have an Acer notebook with Windows XP . In normal mode, my display > appears to be slightly corrupted. In safe mode, the display is perfect. > > Windows Help indicates that this could be an issue with my Bios and/or > Driver. How would I go about correcting this? I doubt it is your BIOS unless you've changed anything there. Try updating your video driver. You will need to get the latest drivers from Acer's tech support site for your specific model laptop. Follow any instructions they have for installing drivers. If the driver update doesn't help, then have you installed any new software that might be interfering with the display? Any graphics programs? If you create another user account and log into it, is the display still corrupted? If nothing has changed and the updated drivers don't help, the video hardware is probably failing. In that case, contact Acer tech support for repair/replacement. A good way to test if a problem is caused by hardware or software, especially on a laptop, is to boot with a rescue CD such as Knoppix (a Linux distro that runs from CD). If the display isn't right in Linux, then you know for sure it's a hardware issue. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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