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I have a computer offline that is used for editing. When I open Windows XP then a strange code appears instead of English?
Anyone know what this is and what to do?!confused!
Mike Freeman.

What code comes up?

Hi Jaques,
Lots odd geometric shapes and other symbols.!confused!
Mike

I can get into Windows no problem but is all in this code! Start and all the programs are there.Do you think that I should still boot in safe mode? What is the next step?!confused!
Mike

Sound like it could be that either your graphics card has died or your graphics card driver is corrupt - had the same problem just before Christmas, I re-installed the driver and everything worked fine after that.

Hi Jaques,

I tried to re-install the VGA driver but as everythingis in code I was not
successful. I think that you are right though!
Thanks.
Mike

I had another thought - have you uninstalled any software recently? If you have, you may have uninstalled the font that windows uses for menus and such like. If so try a System Restore.

Hi Jaques,

I have not uninstalled any software.

When I uploaded the drivers a driver icon appeared on the desktop?

Regards,
Mike.

What graphics card are you using?

If it's ATI it maybe a shortcut to Catalyst Control Center.