From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Fri Sep 25 1998 - 13:16:42 EDT
Ken..
it was not the screen that was melting, it was the video driver.. :-)
i have seen this occur only a couple of times..
its just a colorful crash..!
Ken wrote:
> Here's an eerie thing that just happened on my 770ed:
>
> In Windows 95, I got a blue screen exception. I don't remember what it
> was, but the file that failed was "PPPxxx.VXD", where I don't remember what
> xxx was. Anyway, I hit enter to resume my session, and the screen remained
> on the blue screen, but got horizontal lines all over it (as if it were an
> interlaced image that hadn't finished loading). Then, within a couple of
> seconds, I noticed that the screen started filling up with a color. Maybe
> it was a green or grayish color. Anyway, it came on the whole screen at
> once, but started out very dim and got brighter and brighter, like there
> was liquid leaking or something. It was REALLY WEIRD. It looked like
> something was gradually oozing into the insides of my screen.
>
> Anyway, I got sufficiently freaked out, and hit the reset button, and the
> screen went instantly black.
>
> Any theories on what was going on? I've never seen a computer screen do
> anything like this, but, then again, I haven't used many laptops in my life.
>
> Ken
> kenzo_at_free-music.com
> http://free-music.com/ken
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