Emachines et1161-07 freezes up at E logo screen, sometimes with distorted graphics, sometimes not. Eventually, it will let me sign on normally (have also done a restore), and will work for a day or so, then same thing will happen. Any ideas? Thanks.

It is the graphic controller problem. That is , the GMCH. If the system have a seperate graphic card, you can replace it with new one if available. If the GMCH is onboard, then you can repair it by heating if you are a technician. I will only be satisfied if you replied to this. So make a reply.

You probably need to send it to HP and have them replace the video card. If the video card is still good make sure you try to upgrade the driver for that card.

A bad video card can disrupt a computer in many ways, and seeing distortion on the screen is a sure sign of video card failure or the corruption of it's hardware driver program.

The freeze ups normally happen before the red lights of doom and they are caused by the GPU and the CPU getting too hot and the soldering snaps off so they lose connection.

If you stop the heat build up you will be fine.

You can do this yourself using a good repair guide or you can send it in and they will fix it for you.

Check the ram

Sounds to me like a few possible things...

1) Bad connection to the monitor, check the cable connection, if you see or suspect any damage, buy a new monitor or test with a friend's monitor.

2) Video card could be bad, if it has a video card, you could simply buy a new card to see if it will fix the problem. If the video port is attached to the motherboard (meaning onboard video), the motherboard could be damaged.

3) The motherboard could be bad. Sometimes fried motherboards will garble the screen like this on bootup.

Full instructions from DELL at:

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&docid=FC55E86F0611BEE3E030030ABD620A8C&l=en&s=gen

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You problably have some software conflict.
The easy way is disconnect your screensaver.

To do that go to:

Start >> Control Panel >> Display >> Screen Saver (select NONE) then hit OK

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Adjust the pixels. Right click on desktop, properties, appearences, advanced and there should be a slide bar to adjust your pixels. Make them larger, ex. 1440X900 instead of 680X400

you have a loose connection, good luck....

It may be a corrupt driver, if you are running xp then go to my computer, right click>properties>hardware>device manager and look down list for graphics adapter. Click on the '+' sign select your graphics adapter and right click and delete. Restart your pc and and xp will find your graphics again and automatically install the drivers. Also check you have no spyware if it is sluggish and clear all your temp files and internet cookies. Use this free programme to give your system a clean out, it's excellent for finding unused system files and registry entries. click on this link and go to the top right side of page and click on download latest version. http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/