Windows 7 Ultimate Fuzzy Screen on Boot

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LukeWithAK

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#71637 14-Nov-2010 10:30

Hello Geekzone,

I recently bought an old computer off one of my mates (HP Compaq DC5000). I added more RAM, a new HDD, GPU and I also installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit. I've been having booting problems with it. I have a dual screen setup on my nVidia Geforce4 MX 440. Every second time I boot up, my first screen comes up with all these fuzzy lines and my second screen just comes up with the normal "Starting Windows" screen. Usually when this happens, I just turn my screen off and then turn it back on and it works. My friend (who has a similar setup to mine) also gets this problem sometimes. I was wondering if there is something I can do to fix this.

Yours sincerely,
LukeWithAK

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#404450 14-Nov-2010 12:14

What sort of screen? Sounds like it's simply not coping with the resolution or refresh rate that's set.

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#404461 14-Nov-2010 12:50

"fuzzy" as in it is in wrong resolution during boot up? I.e. a SVGA resolution on wide-screen?

During the boot up Windows 7 is only using standard resolution that supported by all display devices (1024x768)

Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation [ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/02/18/engineering-the-windows-7-boot-animation.aspx ] Read the "No compromise on performance" section.

http://superuser.com/questions/89850/windows-7-boot-screen-resolution-aspect-ratio

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#405997 17-Nov-2010 17:24

If it's only an boot screen and not the actual Desktop then why worry that GF 4mx440 is a pretty crap old card to be trying to run Win7 on at anyrate

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#405999 17-Nov-2010 17:33

chiefie: "fuzzy" as in it is in wrong resolution during boot up? I.e. a SVGA resolution on wide-screen?

During the boot up Windows 7 is only using standard resolution that supported by all display devices (1024x768)

Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation [ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/02/18/engineering-the-windows-7-boot-animation.aspx ] Read the "No compromise on performance" section.

http://superuser.com/questions/89850/windows-7-boot-screen-resolution-aspect-ratio

probably one reason for the faster boot time is win7 no longer supports the use .gif animations where as Vista does and if you use a password you still get the 4 boot/logon screens that vista uses so really there is no difference in the speed of the boot sequence time to desktop