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Disappearing Words and Letters
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wonderful person M-Sully said On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:07:40 +0100, "Ian" wrote: From what? programmes like word? items from the desktop? How much time are you talking about? Your post raises many more questions.... "M-Sully" wrote in message . .. Does anyone experience disappearing words and letters when using XP over time? -M The words and letters seems to disappear from IE Web browser and some of other program's icons (i.e Eudora, Excel). Most of the disappearing seems to occur on buttons - it could be within a website or on application's button. Sometime the disappearance occur in the title bar. I usually had to restart the computer so that all the words and letters re-appears. It usually happens if I use many programs .. I tried to track down WHICH program and I couldn't. *sighs* Only time I've seen this was with an old Creative Labs Riva TNT2 graphics card, which has some memory problems. Not only would words get lost off of icons, but whole icons would get corrupted and turned into black (or red, or whatever) boxes. Lots of these icons/windows are cached on the video card (in video memory), and that's where they get corrupted .. Windows and the video drivers ask for the cached version to be spat out at the screen Ok, but what comes out is garbage. If you can adjust your video card clock speeds, try slowing them down. In case it is overheating, try with the side off the case. If all else fails, try a different video card. -- GSV Three Minds in a Can Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing. |
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Disappearing Words and Letters
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:26:54 +0100, GSV Three Minds in a Can
] wrote: Bitstring , from the wonderful person M-Sully said On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:07:40 +0100, "Ian" wrote: From what? programmes like word? items from the desktop? How much time are you talking about? Your post raises many more questions.... "M-Sully" wrote in message ... Does anyone experience disappearing words and letters when using XP over time? -M The words and letters seems to disappear from IE Web browser and some of other program's icons (i.e Eudora, Excel). Most of the disappearing seems to occur on buttons - it could be within a website or on application's button. Sometime the disappearance occur in the title bar. I usually had to restart the computer so that all the words and letters re-appears. It usually happens if I use many programs .. I tried to track down WHICH program and I couldn't. *sighs* Only time I've seen this was with an old Creative Labs Riva TNT2 graphics card, which has some memory problems. Not only would words get lost off of icons, but whole icons would get corrupted and turned into black (or red, or whatever) boxes. Lots of these icons/windows are cached on the video card (in video memory), and that's where they get corrupted .. Windows and the video drivers ask for the cached version to be spat out at the screen Ok, but what comes out is garbage. If you can adjust your video card clock speeds, try slowing them down. In case it is overheating, try with the side off the case. If all else fails, try a different video card. I suspected heat as the culprit. If heat is the issue, then why was the problem solved after restarting? -M |
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Disappearing Words and Letters
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wonderful person M-Sully said snip I suspected heat as the culprit. If heat is the issue, then why was the problem solved after restarting? Two possible reasons - 1) the temperature of everything is significantly lower when you restart, and 2) the video card memory gets flushed on a restart, so icons/windows are going into a different area for caching .. when that fills up you are back to using the 'bad' area (or maybe the video processor is just trying to use more video memory than actually exists). -- GSV Three Minds in a Can Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing. |
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Disappearing Words and Letters
If they reappear after rebooting it is an indication there is a
communications problem between your computer and display. "M-Sully" wrote in message ... On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:07:40 +0100, "Ian" wrote: From what? programmes like word? items from the desktop? How much time are you talking about? Your post raises many more questions.... "M-Sully" wrote in message .. . Does anyone experience disappearing words and letters when using XP over time? -M The words and letters seems to disappear from IE Web browser and some of other program's icons (i.e Eudora, Excel). Most of the disappearing seems to occur on buttons - it could be within a website or on application's button. Sometime the disappearance occur in the title bar. I usually had to restart the computer so that all the words and letters re-appears. It usually happens if I use many programs .. I tried to track down WHICH program and I couldn't. *sighs* |
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