This is a two-part question.
Recently, my display has been acting up. When I power up, the first screen
which shows the Bios make and CPU info has a few red and blue square-
shaped patches and some of the information is garbled with DOS extended
characters. When Windows loads my desktop, there are several horizontal dotted lines which go from side to side. The display gets worse when I open
a folder. Patchy rectangular areas of color are mirrored on the screen.
Then these patchy areas go away when I close the window that seemed
to cause them. Then my mouse pointer developes two lines that look like vertical slots that are attached to the pointer. I've never seen anything
like this before. However, all of my software is functioning just fine as is
the computer. I suspect the video card or the bios. I recently took the
card out and put it back in and changed some settings in the bios setup, although I restored the defaults. I swapped monitors and I still had the same problem.
Assuming there is hope, I would like to purchase a new video card but I've
had trouble locating one for my system. I am running Windows 98 first edition
on a Pentium II with an old Matsonic mobo with an AMIBIOS from 1999.
Any thoughts or insight will be appreciated.
Recently, my display has been acting up. When I power up, the first screen
which shows the Bios make and CPU info has a few red and blue square-
shaped patches and some of the information is garbled with DOS extended
characters. When Windows loads my desktop, there are several horizontal dotted lines which go from side to side. The display gets worse when I open
a folder. Patchy rectangular areas of color are mirrored on the screen.
Then these patchy areas go away when I close the window that seemed
to cause them. Then my mouse pointer developes two lines that look like vertical slots that are attached to the pointer. I've never seen anything
like this before. However, all of my software is functioning just fine as is
the computer. I suspect the video card or the bios. I recently took the
card out and put it back in and changed some settings in the bios setup, although I restored the defaults. I swapped monitors and I still had the same problem.
Assuming there is hope, I would like to purchase a new video card but I've
had trouble locating one for my system. I am running Windows 98 first edition
on a Pentium II with an old Matsonic mobo with an AMIBIOS from 1999.
Any thoughts or insight will be appreciated.
