I have a problem with my Acer laptop computer. I have just switched it on
and find that most the text is twinged reddish. It all loads ok and I get
to the XP desktop but everything has this pinkish colour around the text.
Is this is a graphics card problem, virus problem or what?

Any help please.

Thanks

Roger

In news:QlN8j.20886$zw.3349@newsfe3-win.ntli.net,
roger lewis typed on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:44:16 GMT:
> I have a problem with my Acer laptop computer. I have just switched
> it on and find that most the text is twinged reddish. It all loads
> ok and I get to the XP desktop but everything has this pinkish colour
> around the text. Is this is a graphics card problem, virus problem or
> what?

Sounds like a hardware problem to me. It would be great to hook up an
external monitor to it and see if that has the same problem. If it does,
sounds like a bad video card.

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Bill

BillW50 wrote:
> In news:QlN8j.20886$zw.3349@newsfe3-win.ntli.net,
> roger lewis typed on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:44:16 GMT:
>> I have a problem with my Acer laptop computer. I have just switched
>> it on and find that most the text is twinged reddish. It all loads
>> ok and I get to the XP desktop but everything has this pinkish colour
>> around the text. Is this is a graphics card problem, virus problem or
>> what?
>
> Sounds like a hardware problem to me. It would be great to hook up an
> external monitor to it and see if that has the same problem. If it does,
> sounds like a bad video card.
>
I personally have had a good experience with Acer's repair service on a
machine under warranty. What I regret is the fact that their support
site is limited in terms of available drivers for their machine.
Reinstalling my own XP on a brand new machine proved to be difficult
since one of the necessary drivers (wireless) could not be found on the
site. After two days of search, I finally identified and found the file
which was ... on ASUS driver!

The fact you probably have a hardware problem does not warrant in itself
a bad opinion on Acer, just bad luck I believe.

Regards

--
John Doue