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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: wyomom on March 31, 2010, 01:00:17 PM

Title: Acer laptop with strange bootup ideocyncrasies
Post by: wyomom on March 31, 2010, 01:00:17 PM

Acer laptop, Windows XP operating system:

Laptop will boot up in safe mode.

In normal mode...
After the Windows XP logo disappears, when the cursor should appear, the screen goes black with faint vertical lines.  When I move the mouse, one vertical line moves left and right across the screen. 

If I reboot and start moving the mouse right after the XP logo disappears, the computer will boot up normally.

If I connect an external monitor, the computer will boot up normally, without messing with the mouse at all.  If I disconnect the external monitor after it boots, everything works okay.

Any Acer gurus out there who can help with this idiosyncrasy?  What would cause this anomaly?

Title: Re: Acer laptop with strange bootup ideocyncrasies
Post by: patio on March 31, 2010, 03:24:20 PM

Re-install all the Acer Drivers for that machine from their site...
Chipset drivers 1st...