Wierd colors in windows!!! icons messed up

[cracker009]

Every once and a while i get wierd colors on my screen. All the colors get screwed up and the icons in windows are all funny. i suspect it's my video driver or maybe a dying monitor.. please help.

Fic 503
amd -k2-400
cl tnt ( newest detenator dirvers 3.63?)
windows 98se
direct x 6.1a

[Steve R Jones]

If you have a "degauss" button on your monitor, press it the next time you see the wierd colors. Sometimes just turning the monitor off/on will correct the problem.

[U-96]

It could also be a by-product of over-over-clocking a video card. My Voodoo3 went all spuggly (I love that word) when I tried 190MHz http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[Banti]

Are these followed by Windows problems? Sometims Windows corrupts a database or two before it fouls up. These wierd graphics may be a sign of a bigger problem.

[AuraEdge]

yeah...sometimes Windows screws up on something like that and messes up the video drivers.
To fix that (if that is the problem) simpy reinstall the video drivers.

[Wiz]

you might wanna check your plugs in back also, if all the connectors are not in properly, you will get strange color combinationss. Also, the board could be fried.

[deep_sky]

the wierd colors and strange looking icons are probably a sign of either a dying card or monitor, or even possibly a bad monitor cable. Where I work, most of the time it is a bad monitor or cable. For the icon problem try going to tweakUI (if you have it) and try rebuilding the icons....

[cracker009]

Everyonce and a while my system completely freezes, this usually occurs after the wierd colors or sometimes at ramdom. i mean completely, no blue screen,can't press alt-ctrl-del,nothing works....I just have to reboot it. I still think it's my video driver though. Im going to switch back to the old 2.17 drivers to see if it helps.

[This message has been edited by cracker009 (edited 12-09-1999).]