problems with the display on my monitor

[Guest]

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

 

[Rich Barry]

Wayne, check here and try a different driver
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.html

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?

 

[Guest]

I downloaded and installed the latest driver. But the problem is still there. Any more ideas?

Thanks,
Wayne

 

[Guest]

It was not especially obvious which driver applied to my system. I did not actually see NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT on the site.

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Have you tried uninstalling the nVidia drivers and allowing Windows to
install its own drivers for the video card?

Also, what type of monitor do you have? It is known that Sony Trinitron
Monitors (older models) had two gray lines each a third down the screen,
but this was actually for softening the screen to prevent eye problems

Nathan McNulty

 

[Rich Barry]

Wayne, I sent you to a Archive of older Nvidia Drivers. So it won't
specify a Video Card by Name. The latest will not work properly with your
older
Video Card. As Nathan mentioned you have to remove the old drivers.
There's a Utility that can do it
for you. Check here. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3233

Have you tried uninstalling the nVidia drivers and allowing Windows to
install its own drivers for the video card?

Also, what type of monitor do you have? It is known that Sony Trinitron
Monitors (older models) had two gray lines each a third down the screen,
but this was actually for softening the screen to prevent eye problems

Nathan McNulty

not actually see NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT on the site.