"garbled display" -- also

Hi,

When I am trying to download a bigger file (say maybe 7 or 10MB), what
happens on my Windows 98 system, is that
the screen goes dark, after it has been downloading for a while, which
I would imagine is normal to happen-- which I would imagine is the
screen saving sort of function; but when I move the mouse again,
to get the screen going again, the screen lights up again,
but seems to "freeze up"/ be garbled ie if I can try to hopefully describe
what
the screen looks like -- it gets covered in a sort of grey
screen -- all across, or sometimes, just part of the screen.
It appears that the computer is still operating; that the computer
has not frozen, but just that now, you cannot see what is going
on, on the screen. So you have to restart.

What I think I may have done (?) once, is accidentally, to have reset a
setting for my display, on "My Computer", "Control Panel", "Display"
ie I hope/don't think my computer is actually broken
-- but I can't seem to find, if that is the case, which setting to
set back. I have tried to reset the number of pixels; that doesn't
seem to be right; I've tried the
screen saver settings; but I still get the problem sometimes it seems
-- it was ok for a while (I think) when I changed the screen saver to another
one; but that appears to only have lasted for a while, and I'm getting
this problem again.

So I really don't know what to do here.

And it's essentially preventing me from downloading bigger files,
because the screen freezes up.

So I'm sort of praying that there might be a way of being able to fix it ?

Could you help ?

Does the screen go dark if you continue to use the computer during the
download (eg, play a game)?

Have you turned the screen saver off (None)?

The screen darkening might be due to the system entering a power down mode.
It is not unusual to have problems with some part of the system after
recovering from low power mode. Do Start / Settings / Control Panel and
select Power Management. Make sure the Always On scheme is selected.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"John" <John.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> When I am trying to download a bigger file (say maybe 7 or 10MB), what
> happens on my Windows 98 system, is that
> the screen goes dark, after it has been downloading for a while, which
> I would imagine is normal to happen-- which I would imagine is the
> screen saving sort of function; but when I move the mouse again,
> to get the screen going again, the screen lights up again,
> but seems to "freeze up"/ be garbled ie if I can try to hopefully describe
> what
> the screen looks like -- it gets covered in a sort of grey
> screen -- all across, or sometimes, just part of the screen.
> It appears that the computer is still operating; that the computer
> has not frozen, but just that now, you cannot see what is going
> on, on the screen. So you have to restart.
>
> What I think I may have done (?) once, is accidentally, to have reset a
> setting for my display, on "My Computer", "Control Panel", "Display"
> ie I hope/don't think my computer is actually broken
> -- but I can't seem to find, if that is the case, which setting to
> set back. I have tried to reset the number of pixels; that doesn't
> seem to be right; I've tried the
> screen saver settings; but I still get the problem sometimes it seems
> -- it was ok for a while (I think) when I changed the screen saver to
> another
> one; but that appears to only have lasted for a while, and I'm getting
> this problem again.
>
> So I really don't know what to do here.
>
> And it's essentially preventing me from downloading bigger files,
> because the screen freezes up.
>
> So I'm sort of praying that there might be a way of being able to fix it ?
>
> Could you help ?
>