Display atrifacts

Just arrived back from holiday (lovely, thanks) to find strange but tiny
artifacts all over the monitor...

They take the form of short, horizontal lines in green and red at random
places on the display. They disappear after a "refresh" of the desktop but
re-appear a few moments later. They also disappear when starting a new
program and then re-appear, again, a few minutes later.

Nothing else seems to be affected and I've done a complete virus scan and
system restore to when I last knew it was OK - i.e. Sat 27th Aug.

Anybody know what might be causing it?

PLEASE??????

Thanks

Update your video drivers to the latest version. Get them from the video
board manufacturers website please, not from Windows Update.

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"kb" wrote in message
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Just arrived back from holiday (lovely, thanks) to find strange but tiny
artifacts all over the monitor...

They take the form of short, horizontal lines in green and red at random
places on the display. They disappear after a "refresh" of the desktop but
re-appear a few moments later. They also disappear when starting a new
program and then re-appear, again, a few minutes later.

Nothing else seems to be affected and I've done a complete virus scan and
system restore to when I last knew it was OK - i.e. Sat 27th Aug.

Anybody know what might be causing it?

PLEASE??????

Thanks

Check to see if the fan on your video card
has stopped running.

"kb" wrote in message
...
Just arrived back from holiday (lovely, thanks) to find strange but tiny
artifacts all over the monitor...

They take the form of short, horizontal lines in green and red at random
places on the display. They disappear after a "refresh" of the desktop but
re-appear a few moments later. They also disappear when starting a new
program and then re-appear, again, a few minutes later.

Nothing else seems to be affected and I've done a complete virus scan and
system restore to when I last knew it was OK - i.e. Sat 27th Aug.

Anybody know what might be causing it?

PLEASE??????

Thanks

"V Green" wrote in message
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Check to see if the fan on your video card
has stopped running.

"kb" wrote in message
...
Just arrived back from holiday (lovely, thanks) to find strange but tiny
artifacts all over the monitor...

They take the form of short, horizontal lines in green and red at random
places on the display. They disappear after a "refresh" of the desktop
but
re-appear a few moments later. They also disappear when starting a new
program and then re-appear, again, a few minutes later.

Nothing else seems to be affected and I've done a complete virus scan and
system restore to when I last knew it was OK - i.e. Sat 27th Aug.

Anybody know what might be causing it?

PLEASE??????

Thanks



Artifacts are very rarely a result of a driver problem more likely heat,
overclocking or faulty video memory. Check the cooling, can you see the GPU
temperature in the video card settings? Do you see any display problems
during boot up; particularly during when the BIOS phase of booting up - the
drivers are not even in sue at this stage. It's not a Leadtek 6800GT by any
chance is it?

Andy

"Andrew" wrote in message
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"V Green" wrote in message
...
Check to see if the fan on your video card
has stopped running.

"kb" wrote in message
...
Just arrived back from holiday (lovely, thanks) to find strange but
tiny
artifacts all over the monitor...

They take the form of short, horizontal lines in green and red at
random
places on the display. They disappear after a "refresh" of the desktop
but
re-appear a few moments later. They also disappear when starting a new
program and then re-appear, again, a few minutes later.

Nothing else seems to be affected and I've done a complete virus scan
and
system restore to when I last knew it was OK - i.e. Sat 27th Aug.

Anybody know what might be causing it?

PLEASE??????

Thanks



Artifacts are very rarely a result of a driver problem more likely heat,
overclocking or faulty video memory. Check the cooling, can you see the
GPU
temperature in the video card settings? Do you see any display problems
during boot up; particularly during when the BIOS phase of booting up -
the
drivers are not even in sue at this stage. It's not a Leadtek 6800GT by
any
chance is it?

Andy

Hi Andy:

Did you ever get your 6800 stable?

Thanks for the replies, chaps! Very good of you.

CPU running at normal temp. (I have front of case indicator).

Can't say if they appear during boot up - they take a while to arrive!

They seem, now, on closer inspection to always be in the same place on
screen. As the weather's cooled down a bit here today they're taking longer
to appear so I think heat IS the answer!

Now, how can I tell if it's the graphics card or the monitor? If it weere
the card, would they be in the same place every time? I don't know how memory
is allocated. It's an NVIDIA GeForce 6600, BTW!

Thanks!



"V Green" wrote:


"Andrew" wrote in message
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"V Green" wrote in message
...
Check to see if the fan on your video card
has stopped running.

"kb" wrote in message
...
Just arrived back from holiday (lovely, thanks) to find strange but
tiny
artifacts all over the monitor...

They take the form of short, horizontal lines in green and red at
random
places on the display. They disappear after a "refresh" of the desktop
but
re-appear a few moments later. They also disappear when starting a new
program and then re-appear, again, a few minutes later.

Nothing else seems to be affected and I've done a complete virus scan
and
system restore to when I last knew it was OK - i.e. Sat 27th Aug.

Anybody know what might be causing it?

PLEASE??????

Thanks



Artifacts are very rarely a result of a driver problem more likely heat,
overclocking or faulty video memory. Check the cooling, can you see the
GPU
temperature in the video card settings? Do you see any display problems
during boot up; particularly during when the BIOS phase of booting up -
the
drivers are not even in sue at this stage. It's not a Leadtek 6800GT by
any
chance is it?

Andy

Hi Andy:

Did you ever get your 6800 stable?

Andy

Hi Andy:

Did you ever get your 6800 stable?




Yes. Although the problem only started when I installed the 6800 GT it
turned out to be my Terratec Aureoun 5.1 Fun sound card. As soon as I
removed the card and used onboard sound the problem went away. Must
have been some conflict between the soundcard and the 6800 GT - very
strange!!!

Andy

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Andy

Hi Andy:

Did you ever get your 6800 stable?




Yes. Although the problem only started when I installed the 6800 GT it
turned out to be my Terratec Aureoun 5.1 Fun sound card. As soon as I
removed the card and used onboard sound the problem went away. Must
have been some conflict between the soundcard and the 6800 GT - very
strange!!!

Andy


God, I hate stuff like that...you never really know
what it is, other than that switching hardware makes it go away.

The original SBLive cards had PCI latency problems that caused
weird things to happen too.

V Green wrote:


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Andy

Hi Andy:

Did you ever get your 6800 stable?




Yes. Although the problem only started when I installed the 6800 GT
it
turned out to be my Terratec Aureoun 5.1 Fun sound card. As soon as
I
removed the card and used onboard sound the problem went away. Must
have been some conflict between the soundcard and the 6800 GT - very
strange!!!

Andy


God, I hate stuff like that...you never really know
what it is, other than that switching hardware makes it go away.

The original SBLive cards had PCI latency problems that caused
weird things to happen too.

You and me both. It could also have been that the soundcard was in the
slot next to the video card, which some m/b's don't like.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Taking the cover off the box, to make it cooler, would affect the card
but not the monitor.

kb wrote:

Thanks for the replies, chaps! Very good of you.

CPU running at normal temp. (I have front of case indicator).

Can't say if they appear during boot up - they take a while to arrive!

They seem, now, on closer inspection to always be in the same place on
screen. As the weather's cooled down a bit here today they're taking longer
to appear so I think heat IS the answer!

Now, how can I tell if it's the graphics card or the monitor? If it weere
the card, would they be in the same place every time? I don't know how memory
is allocated. It's an NVIDIA GeForce 6600, BTW!

Thanks!



"V Green" wrote:


"Andrew" wrote in message
...

"V Green" wrote in message
...

Check to see if the fan on your video card
has stopped running.

"kb" wrote in message
...

Just arrived back from holiday (lovely, thanks) to find strange but

tiny

artifacts all over the monitor...

They take the form of short, horizontal lines in green and red at

random

places on the display. They disappear after a "refresh" of the desktop
but
re-appear a few moments later. They also disappear when starting a new
program and then re-appear, again, a few minutes later.

Nothing else seems to be affected and I've done a complete virus scan

and

system restore to when I last knew it was OK - i.e. Sat 27th Aug.

Anybody know what might be causing it?

PLEASE??????

Thanks


Artifacts are very rarely a result of a driver problem more likely heat,
overclocking or faulty video memory. Check the cooling, can you see the

GPU

temperature in the video card settings? Do you see any display problems
during boot up; particularly during when the BIOS phase of booting up -

the

drivers are not even in sue at this stage. It's not a Leadtek 6800GT by

any

chance is it?

Andy

Hi Andy:

Did you ever get your 6800 stable?

I know all about the SB Live latency problem as well! My SB Live used
to cause my PCI ADSL modem to disconnect as the SB was hogging the PCI
bus. Luckily I could tweak the PCI latency and delayed transaction
settings in the BIOS to get around it though.

Andrew