Ladies, I need your geek squad heads on!!
My computer is definitely starting to show the toll that my work is taking on it, but right now, I simply cannot afford to get another one. I am working on it, but taxes need to be paid, bills...well, you know how it is! So for the meantime, I am trying to fix things. This one I CANNOT figure out, but I am going to be trying to sort it out today, and any advice or thoughts would be hugely appreciated! After all, I am getting better, but I am still nowhere near as computer-savvy as I would like to be.
The computer: Custom build, and not by me, so I don't know all the specs as well as I should. Snarl. Quad core processor, 3.12Gbyte, GeForce 8300. It's a few years old now - at least 3, probably 4. CPU is running very low - right now I just have firefox (and some tune up and disk cleaning software up) and it is at 3%.
Running Windows XP.
The problem: For two days now, my screen looks like a funhouse mirror! Not very bad, but enough for me to notice, and seriously notice when I am watching myself in the encoder.
Basically, everything looks as though it has been stretched lengthways - it is wider and shorter than it should be. The includes icons, the toolbar, windows and programs. Some of them I cannot manually change the shape (such as manycam and the logitech controller) so they just sit there being weirdly shaped. Some of them, like firefox, where I should be able to change the shape, I can change the size of the window, but it won't change anything inside it - so if I try and make this current SW window longer and narrower, even by a cm, it simply shows less of the page, and the font and everything is still all stretched out.
The color is fine, the resolution is fine, it just looks like it is distorted.
What I have tried:
-Restarting it (obviously)
- Turning it off and leaving it for an hour, then restarting it.
- Altering the resolution
- Altering the desktop settings (i.e. background, theme, etc)
- Playing with the controls on the moniter in terms of brightness, etc in case it is the moniter, not the computer.
Any ideas? I am currently running AVG PCTuneup, and am going to do a disk clean and de-frag as soon as that is done too.



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