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Revisiting 'Doing clean install....' with a return of old problem
In my last post to my original thread "Doing a clean install and need advice" I spoke prematurely as all had gone perfectly yesterday. This morning I started it up and was greeted with it "installing 100 updates" or something like that. That done it restarted and all was fine for an hour or so. At that point I had to leave for a bit and just left it on. An hour or less later I returned, jiggled the mouse and nothing occurred. Had to hold the button to shut down and then restart, which it did but now had red fine pinstripes covering the entire screen, but it was still functional. Had to do two Restart Repairs and finally got to a Safe Mode. Made a screen shot of the Event Log which is attached that shows the stripes also. I tried the System Restore option, selecting 4 different times to restore from and none would complete the restore.
In so doing I recalled that before doing the reinstall yesterday, when I was having all of the previous problems with screen freeze and striped screens, etc., many times all functioned fine until I left the computer running while I was out for as much as an hour or more. When I returned the thing would be frozen and often returned with stripes and colored swirls and other problems, all similar to today's lousy results. Did multi Start Repairs and reboots to finally get it to work.
Could any of these problems be associated with a video card? I checked and its fan is running and I don't know what to do beyond that point. I removed and re-seated it.
As before, all suggestions will be appreciated. Maybe the event log will mean something and point the way to a solution. Should I just get a new video card and give that a try? What else should I do? Could one or more of the updates have caused the problem? Thanks, Roving.