visual artifacts

I have determined this to be a graphics card or GPU driver probelm I am running a catleap 27' with the 7850 and using teh dual dvi cable that the catleap came with. Randomly about every few seconds small areas on the screen become pixelated with little boxes of colors. I went to device manager...

Hey forum, Been getting some more and more BSOD's recently. Problems initially started a few months ago with a NTFS screen at startup - saying one of your files disks needs to be checked for consistency. However it would never actually check them. I checked if it was dirty but it said it...

Columns of Horizontal Lines appear randomly and frequently on my desktop. Not always but sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. Images of the display on my desktop are zip attached along with my pc specs - (incl a detailed one called OURPC.txt). Some days they never appear. My computer freezes as a...

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Recently I've been having issues with the way text is displayed on my computer. Everything had been working fine until a few weeks ago, and I've had this install of windows running for over a year now with no issues. Anyways, the problem is that a lot of text looks glitchy and is very difficult...

[Solved] I have a good one. I hope someone can figure this out because it has me stumped... I've been running a Geforce GTX 280 with the latest drivers fine for as long as i've had the card. Recently i've been getting crashes as soon as I boot to desktop that scramble the screen pink and...

Hi. I'm new, here. I have a question, though, about video playback, on Windows 7. From time to time, (Which is really frequent), during video playback, annoying little green rectangles keep popping up, for around a split second. It's an annoying blink, and, I have a question, about that...

I have a problem that when I customize my desktop the bar at the bottom (I don't know what it is called) where the start menu is is clean, but has lines going diagonal and it does this for all my themes and I don't know why it is doing this or how to fix it help! Link Removed

I have had this issue with two computer in the past. I had an HP Pavilion TX1000 for a while and had the issue on the Vista OS. Now I have an IBM Thinkpad T43 with Windows 7 32-bit installed and it has been fantastic up until just today. I've looked through a lot of documentation on this...

Ok so i've been having this weird problem lately. Every once in a while, my mouse pointer suddenly changes to a long vertical line, with "spikes" coming out of it. I know this sounds weird, but it does happen. I've tried taking screenshots, but those don't include the mouse pointer. Anyways...

Hi all, Please help me if you can, as my main desktop is down. Thanks a lot for your time. Please read on. Sorry for the lengthy post. Problem Summary . The machine has only 1 OS: Windows 7 x64 Professional. If I try to boot normally past the Windows logo screen, I'll receive a BSOD and...

Hello all. I have two monitors, one is a HD and one is regular flat screen one. My main monitor is perfectly fine(HD monitor). But my 2nd screen is not working right. Basicly it's fine but the color is messed up. The color is all blured to the right and is green. If i take a screen shot of the...

i just recently upgraded my memory on my gateway m 1617 to run a 64bit operating system. I installed windows 7 home premium and everything works great until i wake my computer from sleep mode, after i wake it up it has a X over the volume controls in the toolbar and when i get menus that pop up...

This has been happening in the title bars and main portion of windows I open (whether it be Firefox, MS Office, Windows Live messenger, VLC media player). I recently upgraded from Vista and right after I had done so, I upgraded my display drivers to the latest one (According to Intel) which are...

Hi, I have been using Windows 7 with some pretty aggravating issues. I reformatted the OS and it was working fine for about a week until my computer at startup started going to blue screen, with a message stating "physical crash memory" dumping to disc and it tries to load to 100 and that's...

I am having a problem with 10's to 100's of blue dots on my screen. I can place a video feed or another computer on the monitor with no blue pixels. Additionally, the screen gets "fuzzy" in places. It is in spots, not a line completely accross the screen. It get worse at time and better at...

Hi, just to start these are my specs: Windows 7 64 bit Build 7100 AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Asus AV8-XE 2gb DDR pc3200 HDD 1- 40gb IDE HDD 2- 300gb SATA Memorex 16x DVD ROM Drive ATI Radeon x1300 pro Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Gamer I noticed that my card falls under legacy software support from ATI...

Hello, AMD 64x2 3800+ 64-bit Win7 (Activated) 2gig DDR 400 I have a old nforce 4 amd/sli Gigabyte K8N-Pro-SLI motherboard... using the latest BIOS that works (F9) dated in 2006... (F10) dated 2008, the board will not post) -- (and of course the latest motherboard drivers are not install...

I was in the middle of installing Windows 7 when the screen inverted colors. It wasn't exactly inverted, but it looked like this: Is there any way to fix this?