I was using Bootit NG to back up the C drive onto an extended volume when
the screen became vertical stripes. Sometimes it just goes blank. So I
deleted the drive and it merged with adjacent free space so I had 35 GB free
space. I went into Disk Management and created a new volume with the free
space using NTFS Default cluster size but had the same problem while
formatting. So I broke it up into several different volumes and was able to
format some of them. The other volumes don't complete the format process, it
freezes and I get the vertical stripes, usually blue and grey, different
patterns.

I have a Gateway laptop AMD Turion dual processor 1.6 Ghz with 1GB memory
which I recently upgraded to 2GB, Vista Home Premium SP1.

"rj" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I was using Bootit NG to back up the C drive onto an extended volume when
> the screen became vertical stripes. Sometimes it just goes blank. So I
> deleted the drive and it merged with adjacent free space so I had 35 GB
> free
> space. I went into Disk Management and created a new volume with the free
> space using NTFS Default cluster size but had the same problem while
> formatting. So I broke it up into several different volumes and was able
> to
> format some of them. The other volumes don't complete the format process,
> it
> freezes and I get the vertical stripes, usually blue and grey, different
> patterns.
>
> I have a Gateway laptop AMD Turion dual processor 1.6 Ghz with 1GB memory
> which I recently upgraded to 2GB, Vista Home Premium SP1.
>
>
Try hooking up an external monitor and see if you're having the same
problem. Did this start right after you upgraded your RAM? If so, put your
old RAM back in and see if that fixes it.

SC Tom