A few days ago an odd problem occured. When I boot my IBM laptop the screen is all weird, it's really hard to explain how it looks like but there are like small white boxes on the screen. Although the text is quite readable.  The boxes are there only while the windows(XP Pro) is loading, but when my background picture comes then everything is perfect! The laptop works just fine! When I reboot my laptop then the screen is also normal. That weird screen thing only happens when my laptop has been turned off for several hours.I hope that someone can help me:)
1) What is new or DIFFERENT since the last TIME everything worked PROPERLY (ie, new hw, new sw, virus, error, etc)?
2) If the issue isn't there after the desktop loads I wouldn't spend a lot of time worrying about it.No error messages, everything is the same besides these boxes on startup! oh I actually think that the battery doesn't last that long anymore, it lasted about an HOUR before but now it's about 30 minDo you see the same "boxes" when you boot and are not on battery power?yesWell, again - if everything is okay after the system boots I wouldn't be too concerned.Thank you so much for your help! I'm so glad to hear that!Keep us posted if the situation deteriorates.Today the problem got worse. Now there are several white and blue dots on my desktop.  And the problem now occurs EVEN when I reboot my machine..don't know what to do about it.