Hi
My sister has a Dell computer that is like a pentium 800 mhz I think. She is using Win98 SE Their computer started having problems where while it was booting up you could see everything clearly but once it was to the main screen everything was way blurry and it was impossible to use
First I though maybe their monitor went bad. I borrowed an old one from a friend and took that over there and it was still blurry. I took the computer and monitor home and booted to safe mode and reloaded Win 98 over the top of the old one but it was still blurry. I then ran Adaware and spybot in safe mode and then everything was working fine.
Took it back to their house and it worked for a few weeks and then the same problems. I took it home and it ran fine here. I ran an AVG virus scan which found 17 viruses so I decided to format the hard drive and start clean. I formatted and reloaded everything and loaded AVG anti virus, adaware and spybot and everything checked out fine.
After I reloaded it my sister took the computer home and she had exactly the same blurry problems with any monitor she tried. My only guess at this point was maybe she had electrical problems or something in that room at her house because it works fine here so she moved it to another room and still the screen is all messed up I even had her buy a new power strip in case that was bad
Do you have any clue at all what could possibly be going on? I am totally stumped on this one. I never expected it not to work after I wiped it clean. I plan on giving her my computer when I buy a new one but that is going to be a while since I just had surgery.
Thanks for any help
Steve
Microsoft Windows (other)