Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:13 pmHey guys,
I've had a problem over about the last week or so where my computer well.. effectively turns into a useless piece of cr@p. It first happened when I installed the Lionheart Creations Trinidad/Tobago pack that I won from the Simflight Screenshot Comp- I started FS at TNCM and the screen started to get funny lines in it in bright fluoro colours. I know it's a weird way to describe it, but they were little horizontal lines about the size of a few grains of rice (with a similar shape) all across the screen. I thought it may have just been a funny FS moment, so I restarted my comp and started FS again. As sson as I started a flight the dreaded "Flight Simulator needs to close- would you like to restart?" box came up, and continued doing so.
I gave up on FS for that night, and haven't used it since, but now those lines have started appearing in Firefox and Chrome as well. 8 times out of 10 whenever I open a new window/go to a new internet page, the screen blacks out for a second or two, and the computer freezes sometimes too. Whenever I restart, I get a message with something like "Error BOOT.INI. Booting from C:/ instead.". Then more often than not the computer won't start, and the screen goes into that mode where it turns off and the power light flashes, as if it is in screensaver mode.
I have no idea what's happening, can anyone help?
I've had a problem over about the last week or so where my computer well.. effectively turns into a useless piece of cr@p. It first happened when I installed the Lionheart Creations Trinidad/Tobago pack that I won from the Simflight Screenshot Comp- I started FS at TNCM and the screen started to get funny lines in it in bright fluoro colours. I know it's a weird way to describe it, but they were little horizontal lines about the size of a few grains of rice (with a similar shape) all across the screen. I thought it may have just been a funny FS moment, so I restarted my comp and started FS again. As sson as I started a flight the dreaded "Flight Simulator needs to close- would you like to restart?" box came up, and continued doing so.
I gave up on FS for that night, and haven't used it since, but now those lines have started appearing in Firefox and Chrome as well. 8 times out of 10 whenever I open a new window/go to a new internet page, the screen blacks out for a second or two, and the computer freezes sometimes too. Whenever I restart, I get a message with something like "Error BOOT.INI. Booting from C:/ instead.". Then more often than not the computer won't start, and the screen goes into that mode where it turns off and the power light flashes, as if it is in screensaver mode.
I have no idea what's happening, can anyone help?
HAPPY .