At 05:41 PM 8/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>  We have a machine at home that shows strange things on the monitor
> during boot-up and re-boot.  The system messages during POST have thin,
> horizontal black lines passing through the text.  It's similar to faulty
> printer that leaves rows of pixels unprinted.  They do not appear in a
> DOS window. Also, the windows 98 logon screen had been showing black dots
> scattered around the windows image that change position with
> subsequenting booting.  Now the dots have become thick, vertical black
> streaks.These do not appear once windows is running or during any
> application. Is this a problem with the monitor?

This sounds like a video card problem. Unless it is an LCD monitor, the
monitor can't selectively have bad pixels or whole rows.

It could very well be that the video card has problems in certain modes
(screen resolutions). That is why the bootup and logon screens show the
problem. Once you have logged onto Windows, it probably sets a different
resolution which happens to not have a problem.


Russ Poffenberger
Credence Systems Corp.
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