02-23-2005
When does the Distortion Appear? Is it After the POST (Power on Selft Test) or During the POST? In other Words. Can you see the Screen Coming on and can you enter The CMOS? Or is it as soon as Windows starts Booting?
If you see the distortion before you can see anything else on the screen you probably have a Hardware Failrue somewhere. Try Re-Seating your Display adapter/RAM/CPU and IDE Devices and make sure all these Devices get detected during the POST. If that does not Work you might have a CMOS Virus or the CMOS or Mainboard got damaged in some other way: maybe lightning. Maybe try another Monitor aswell??. The best is to have the PC Returned to the Hardware Vendor from whom you bought the PC from so they Can Check all your Hardware or Re-Flash your CMOS, Wichever turnes out to be the Problem.
If the Distortion Displays as soon as Windows Boots Try Booting into safe mode (Windows XP gives you the Option to press F8 for FailSafe Options just before the XP Boot-Up screen appears) and ensure All Devices are Setup properly. You should also do all your Virus scanning and Removal from Safemode to ensure al Viruses get Removed Properly. If you cannot go into safe mode you probably will have to reload Windws. (Yippee for MS)
Hope this Helps
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u370
machid(1) User Commands machid(1)
NAME
machid, sun, iAPX286, i286, i386, i486, i860, pdp11, sparc, u3b, u3b2, u3b5, u3b15, vax, u370 - get processor type truth value
SYNOPSIS
sun
iAPX286
i386
pdp11
sparc
u3b
u3b2
u3b5
u3b15
vax
u370
DESCRIPTION
The following commands will return a true value (exit code of 0) if you are using an instruction set that the command name indicates.
sun True if you are on a Sun system.
iAPX286 True if you are on a computer using an iAPX286 processor.
i386 True if you are on a computer using an iAPX386 processor.
pdp11 True if you are on a PDP-11/45tm or PDP-11/70tm.
sparc True if you are on a computer using a SPARC-family processor.
u3b True if you are on a 3B20 computer.
u3b2 True if you are on a 3B2 computer.
u3b5 True if you are on a 3B5 computer.
u3b15 True if you are on a 3B15 computer.
vax True if you are on a VAX-11/750tm or VAX-11/780tm.
u370 True if you are on an IBM(R) System/370tm computer.
The commands that do not apply will return a false (non-zero) value. These commands are often used within makefiles (see make(1S)) and
shell scripts (see sh(1)) to increase portability.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
make(1S), sh(1), test(1), true(1), uname(1), attributes(5)
NOTES
The machid family of commands is obsolete. Use uname -p and uname -m instead.
SunOS 5.11 5 Jul 1990 machid(1)