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baseballst4r

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    Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
    « Reply #30 on: December 09, 2007, 10:06:41 AM »
    It is a windows screen saver, the one with the 3D pipes.
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    Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
    « Reply #31 on: December 09, 2007, 10:10:35 AM »
    Just making sure, it's not 3rd party screensaver.
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      Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
      « Reply #32 on: December 09, 2007, 10:15:23 AM »
      Yea, it's not.  Do you think that having the monitor power settings set to "Turn Off Monitor After 20 Minutes" has anything to do with it?
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      Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
      « Reply #33 on: December 09, 2007, 11:18:48 AM »
      It shouldn't. Let's try Safe Mode, first.
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        Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
        « Reply #34 on: December 10, 2007, 03:10:23 PM »
        Ok, last night I put it in Safe Mode, and when I woke up it was fine.  So then before I went to school I put it back to Normal Mode.  When I got home from school I moved the mouse to remove the screen saver, and it was fine, for about a minute and then the screen and mouse just froze, so I had to restart it by holding down the power button ( since Ctrl+Alt+Delete wouldn't work).
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        Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
        « Reply #35 on: December 10, 2007, 05:50:23 PM »
        Try re-installing both your mouse and keyboard drivers.
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          Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
          « Reply #36 on: December 11, 2007, 02:22:31 PM »
          And, it is back to the flashing screen.  Today after school it was all messed up like it was a few days ago.
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          Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
          « Reply #37 on: December 11, 2007, 03:15:24 PM »
          Video card going bad?

          Sounds like the same symptoms I had with my win98 once. The screen and mouse would freeze for no apparent reason at any random time. Then one day it froze and I couldn't get it to boot back up to Windows. Turned out to be the vid card.
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            Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
            « Reply #38 on: December 11, 2007, 03:32:40 PM »
            But when I run my computer in Safe Mode it is fine.  It's just when I run it in normal mode that it messes up.
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            Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
            « Reply #39 on: December 11, 2007, 07:43:25 PM »
            Quote from: baseballst4r on December 11, 2007, 03:32:40 PM
            But when I run my computer in Safe Mode it is fine.  It's just when I run it in normal mode that it messes up.

            This is because in Safemode Windows is using a generic driver to run the hardware...therefore it is either a driver issue or the actual card going bad as evilfantasy suggested...
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            Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
            « Reply #40 on: December 11, 2007, 08:42:43 PM »
            That's it.
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              Re: Screen flashes, taskbar goes to the top, what do I do?
              « Reply #41 on: December 12, 2007, 01:29:04 PM »
              Ahh, well I'll just deal with it for a while longer then until I get a new computer. 
              Thanks for all of the help! :)
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