Ok, this mostly happens with trillian, although not exclusively. I try to do something in trillian like view someone's status, the computer freezes unless I move the mouse a lot or press ctrl alt delete, and then the screen goes black for a second then comes back on with some garbled graphics sometimes. How do I fix this?
Most scary thing that happened was it locked up on the login screen and I couldn't do anything to unfreeze it. So after I turned the computer back on, there were green and brown lines going down and the graphics were totally messed up and moving around. I went to properties and for some reason it had me in 4-bit, instead of you know like 32-bit, with the lowest resolution.
Luckily, the green lines and stuff went away when I rebooted, but the only thing that's different is the font for some reason. I'm still getting these quick freezes though. And I don't want those green lines to come back. How do I fix this?
I'm using WinXP.
It says "Plug and Play Monitor on NVIDIA GeForce 256" and I think the NVIDIA thing is the graphics card.
Let me know if you need to know anything else to help me.