You need a new graphics card.
Steven
"Please help me" <Pleasehelpme@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news
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> have a nvidia Geforce4 mx420 graphics card.
> My computer was running fine.
> Then one day when I woke up to boot the system, there were vertical stripes
> on the display (i.e. when the system displays the P4 logo and logging into XP
> pro).
> Worst yet, it freezes half way through logging into windows and I can never
> get it to work.
> So I have to go in safe mode and disable the card. And even though the
> vertical stripes still appear, I can log into normal window mode. Of course,
> I'm having one horrible time dealing with the squary graphics.
> Is there any way to fix this, as I have already reinstalled windows as well
> as formatted my c: where my windows directory sits (although I haven't
> formatted my other partitions.)
> Thank you very much for yoru time and effort in reviewing to my query. Your
> help will be greatly appreciated.
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