I've got a 3year old Toshiba Satellite that has been virtually trouble free up til now.
The screen started flickering off and it seemed that if I moved the hinge, it would come back to life. This went on for a few days. I was about to pull it apart and check for loose connections until....
The other night the problem got worse and now during the reboot - just before the windows splash screen - the screen is filled with zeros.
When windows does come up, the resolution is screwy and by the time I can select a user and log in the monitor has gone blank and will not come back. If I boot in safemode, the monitor does not flicker, and everything seems to work ok. When itgets to the safemode boot menu, the strange zeros come back again but do not cover the screen. Instead, they and other odd characters appear in the menu options. One was: "Lqst Kn0wN Good c0nfiguration" or something like that... I know there was a q where the a should have been & 0's werein weird places too.
2007-04-05
17:39:18
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