Yesterday morning Clay and Sharon's laptop had a relapse and the screen again jumped a quarter screen to the right, so this morning another attempt was made to right the ship. It was finally realized that the problem was happening on boot up and the blame was placed on either a failing BIOS battery of an aging video card. The laptop is 8 years old so my money is on the battery. We did get it back to working, but the computer will probably need additional work that I'm not equipped to do. For being nothing more than a box of sand (silicon), computers can sure give one fits.
Today is baseball/football day with a full array of games to choose from. Sitting inside and being entertained will be preferable to being outside and watching the thermometer climb to the 90 degree range which is supposed to challenge the record for the day. I also might take some time to work on Mr. Dell who is emitting a low groaning sound as one of the interior fans is in the process of departing this life. I would say it's the type sound that could drive one nuts, but in my case it's not a drive only a short putt. Maybe that's why it's so easy for me to enjoy the good life.
Re: Clay and Sharon's laptop
ReplyDeleteI'm new to reading your blog and I don't know if this will help.... but I've had this problem on several computers (a few of them at Intel). It may be as you say, or it may be a setting that gets hit by a hotkey. You may have checked the screen rotation already, but if not (next time it happens you may want to try it):
>Right click on the desktop
>Click on graphics properties
>Display settings
>Make sure Screen Rotation is not enabled (or set it back to the proper rotation)
*This setting may be found in different places depending on the computer make.
:)
Thanks Heidi, that's what I thought at first, but I have since found the problem occurs before Windows even loads. It is occurring in the BIOS load. Thanks for the input though and thanks for reading the blog.
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