Corrupted Windows XP display

November 5, 2005 5:59 PM

Why does my Windows XP Home display get short, green lines and "vibrates" intermittently?

These symptoms occur intermittently and usually coming out of hibertnate. But sometimes on a cold start the display is corrupted. Sometimes my anti-virus toaster message seems to cause the problems, sometimes not. Plus the mouse (USB MS Optical) gets turned off.

All drivers are current, but I am downloading/installing SP2.

Anyone have any ideas?

posted by grefo to computers & internet (2 comments total)

Your video card might be dying. I had similar lines show up when I received a faulty video card.
posted by riffola at 6:03 PM on November 5, 2005

I second the video card. I had the exact same symptoms once my video card fan died, and the GPU started to fry.

It could also be a corrupted motherboard, especially if theUSB mouse is plugged directly into the back of the computer. Do you have any other USB devices that are malfunctioning?
posted by hobbes103 at 7:31 PM on November 5, 2005