I think maplestory broke my laptop
I was playing maple one day, when everything froze and I had to close maplestory. Then I shut down my laptop. Few minutes later, I opened my laptop and my screen has this pink line on top of the screen and it's making my screen shake up and down. So someone HELP ME.
October 26, 2010
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Does this "pink line" show up from when you first turn on your laptop? Or it shows up after windows is loaded? If it's the first, then I would say your graphic card went bad.
[quote=xpulsenoint]Are you really that crazy? You DON'T KNOW whether you have one. If you do, it may be hiding. And there are probably hundreds, even if you use a virus scan.[/quote]
No viruses a kid is likely to pick up from gaming sites is going to escape a good anti-virus program. It's not like the Chinese Intelligence Service is trying to steal missile plans from your laptop. If AVG or Avira or Avast! or whatever says there's nothing there, it's pretty much guaranteed to be clean.
@ TS- Maplestory is NOT going to "break" your computer. NO software can do that. Either a virus hit while you were playing, or your video card drivers crapped out, or your hard drive or RAM died. It's just a coincidence that you were playing MapleStory when it happened.
Restart your computer in Windows Safe Mode (restart, and BEFORE the Windows loading screen appears start hitting the F8 key. Choose "Safe Mode" from the menu that pops up. When it asks if you want to do a System Restore, tell it to just go to Safe Mode), then run your anti-virus and Malwarebytes anti-spyware scanner (Google "Malwarebytes" for the download link). That will find and remove any viruses or trojans that are affecting things.
If it still doesn't work, restart in "Safe Mode with Networking" (so you can use your browser), then go to your computer's manufacturer's web site and find the "Support" link on their front page. Find the "drivers download" link and it will usually ask for the NAME and MODEL NUMBER of your computer. When you tell it what computer you have, it will show you a list of all the downloads they have for that specific computer. Download the "video drivers" and install on your computer. Then restart normally and see if it works then.
@Readers Oh there are pink lines. I guess it's time to fix it.
Sounds like as if your laptop screen or video card is going bad and needs to be fixed.
Do a print screen of your problem (taking a screenshot, in other words). Press Print Screen on your keyboard, go to Paint and then paste the image in (Ctrl + V). If you see the pink lines, it's a video card problem. If not, it's the laptop screen.
I tried rebooting it, but it doesn't work and @above no I do not have a virus.
[quote=xburn3rz]Reboot if not work reformat[/quote]
Or he could redownload his display drivers, seriously, what's the deal with everyone suggesting reformatting these days.
It's hardly ever the right answer.
Ok I guess I'll try that.