Lap-Top

[Svejk]

my lap-top is 2 or 3 years old(although I haven't used it much) well, the last few days it's been getting fuzzy, wavy lines intermittently. like old tellys used to get when they needed a thump. Any ideas what causes it. perhaps lap-tops only last a couple of years?
foa methyl, its a Packard-bell P5WSO or 50 on the end.

[Buenchico]

That sounds like a hardware fault but it might just be worth reinstalling the video driver. Enter your laptop's serial number here:
http://www.packardbell.co.uk/pb/en/GB/content/download
Then download the video driver and double-click on the file to run it. Then restart your laptop.

[Svejk]

right, i'll try an do that, chris(when tubular bells finishes) it had better not blow up, lol. ;)

[Old_Geezer]

Just make sure you download nobang.exe and run it to ensure no blow up of the laptop.

[Hypognosis]

@O_G

//Old_Geezer
Just make sure you download nobang.exe and run it to ensure no blow up of the laptop.//

Sudden outbreak of humour, in a tech thread? Whatever next? ;-)

[Svejk]

I just did that, it gave me a choice of a dozen 'drivers' so I plumped for the top one. I think its worse.

[Buenchico]

If in doubt, it's usually best to select the one with the most recent date (assuming, of course, that there's any date shown!)

[Svejk]

I'm going to turn it off for a couple of hours, i'll mess with it later. its in grave danger of going through the window at the moment(as soon as I typed that it stopped, perhaps I should just threaten it from time to time)

[Svejk]

A.I.

[Hypognosis]

right-click on a blank piece of desktop, [drop-down menu]-Properties
one of the tabs will show the existing driver version and possily an option to Repair/Reinstall the driver.
I've never had cause to use that button myself and not sure I trust it, so won't recommend it to anyone else.

Buenchico, is uninstall-old, reboot, install new only for custom video cards or does it apply to native windows drivers too?
e.g. uninstall suspect driver and reboot - how do you get any display (beyond EGA gfx, like the blue screen?

[HansUrbancka]

@Hypognosis....I am intrigued by your posting. A right click into a blank piece of desktop Doesn't give me any menu from which I can establish what version of Drivers I have in my Computer.

Please provide some further information because I am genuinely interested
in the drop-down menu which you are getting.

Hans.

[ChuckFickens]

The right click properties... blah blah blah... update driver is a good suggestion from Hypognosis...

If that doesn't work.... Faulty hardware is the most likely.

[Svejk]

hi chuck, haven't seen you in a while. It was terrible this morning. just went to show my son how bad it is,,,,,,,,,,,,,and its perfect.

[Svejk]

anyhoo, update for anyone interested. Took it to repair shop(or rather my butler did) and he put a new screen on it. £85.
footnote; I've often read advice on here about cleaning screen with a damp cloth, not to spray anything on the screen, etc. What do they know, I would chuckle, having cleaned my screen with windolene, cillit-bang or whatever cleaning spray happened to be near at hand.
Now I cant say for sure that that caused the problem but I can say why take the risk, folks.