Corrupted Display

[Guest]

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.

 

[peter]

Go to the Acer download site and look for new XP video driver for your
specific notebook video
peter

 

[Malke]

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