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Re: garbled characters in setup,bios (53 Views)
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iduda
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Registered: ‎05-27-2012
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garbled characters in setup,bios

all of a sudden my xp stopped working,and I got a full screen of zeros on the monitor.I cannot handle the setup and the bios because is full of characters other than letters, mixed with letters,when i try to use the recovery (F10) i get nowhere.i have a pavilion dual core processor.can somebody help.thanks

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CherylG
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Registered: ‎11-12-2008
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Re: garbled characters in setup,bios

Sounds like a video card issue.Do you have a video card or onboard graphics?


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