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jim.mar

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Desktop occasionally reconfigures itself.
« on: January 29, 2007, 03:10:23 PM »
Sometimes, when I am finished with an application and close it. or when I store word or excel data onto one of my hard drives, my monitor goes completely blank for a few seconds then, when it comes back on it has to restore all of the icons on the desktop, one at a time,  and sometimes it recofigures my whole desktop arrangement.  Really annoying, as i have a  loaded desktop.  Is this normal for XP? ?   I am running windows XP, on a 2 yr old home built machine with 1 Gb of ram, Athlon cpu, two 80 Gb hard drives, partitioned into 4 drives of 40 Gb each.   Anyone have any idea what is going on? ?  Thanks   Jim
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Re: Desktop occasionally reconfigures itself.
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2007, 05:58:13 PM »
There are many issues that could be causing this including but not limited to RAM issues and or corrupt vid card drivers.

Do a search for a utility called Desklay which saves your desktop settings and restores them with one clik.

Meantime check your vid card drivers and run memtest on that RAM.
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Re: Desktop occasionally reconfigures itself.
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2007, 07:50:00 AM »
GERU. thanks  for the comeback.       I searched for desklay.  All the web sites were printed in some oriental language I did not understand.  However one called "help desk survival" offerd a tool kit for $199.00.   Beyond my means.  
     I checked my ram with "PC Mechanic" and defragged it.  Found no problems.  
  Vidio drivers all have been checked and updated.  I have a NVIDIA GeForce FX5500, I believe.  Capable of drivein 2 monitors.  The display blanked out again last night when i stored something on the desktop.
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Re: Desktop occasionally reconfigures itself.
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2007, 04:56:49 PM »
If you are having no luck finding Desklay send me a PM...

As to the video issue i would remove a side panel and make sure the fan is working on that card.

If it is power down and remove the card and clean the contacts with a pencil eraser and re-seat it.

As usual take all ESD precautions when working inside the case and make sure all power sources are disconnected.
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Re: Desktop occasionally reconfigures itself.
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2007, 08:17:24 PM »
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Re: Desktop occasionally reconfigures itself.
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2007, 08:25:27 PM »
PATIO,   I  WILL TRY AGAIN.  Hit the wrong key.  :-[
THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE GETTING MORE PREVALENT.   :-/
1   HAVE NO LUCK GETTING DESKLAY
2   THERE IS NO FAN ON VIDEO CARD, ONE ON AUDIO AND IT IS WORKING
3   HAVE NOT TRIED CLEANING CONTACTS YET.  WILL DO.  I HAVE NO PROBLEM GOING INTO MY   MACHINE. BEEN THERE MANY TIMES   :)
    I am very appreciative of the help you are offering here.  Thanks :)
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Re: Desktop occasionally reconfigures itself.
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2007, 06:56:57 AM »
PC Mechanic isn't a full RAM tester DLOad and run Memtest. It creates a bootable floppy. Let it run a few hours.
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Re: Desktop occasionally reconfigures itself.
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2007, 07:01:09 AM »
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GeForce FX5500,

If this is your card it should have a fan...
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