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« on: April 22, 2012, 11:27:38 PM » |
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occasionally, if the game or program I'm running lowers automatically for any reason, there are grey shaded diagonal lines across the screen...is this anything to worry about? They go away if i close the program.  |
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2012, 12:20:20 AM » |
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Sounds like your video card might be starting to fail.
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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2012, 04:11:53 AM » |
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Maybe, or it might be bad drivers or a really old card that isn't fully compatibile with the latest drivers.
The fact that it only occcurs after the "alt-tab" sort of minimization/maximization routine means its probably bad programming somewhere. If you were to have it occur in-game or during "normal" operation, it would totaly be the hardware.
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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2012, 06:32:32 AM » |
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If this was the computer that the power supply failed on, that failure probably damaged the video card and you are starting to see the results.
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« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2012, 08:00:01 AM » |
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you broke it.
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« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2012, 11:06:19 AM » |
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If this was the computer that the power supply failed on, that failure probably damaged the video card and you are starting to see the results.
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« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2012, 11:11:25 AM » |
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Also just try to revert back to your last set of video card drivers. I had some lines that were showing up online last week and I was getting some error messages that indicated bad drivers on the video card. So I rolled back to last good configuration and lines have disappeared.
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« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2012, 11:14:00 AM » |
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Also just try to revert back to your last set of video card drivers. I had some lines that were showing up online last week and I was getting some error messages that indicated bad drivers on the video card. So I rolled back to last good configuration and lines have disappeared.
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« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2012, 02:02:57 PM » |
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Yes, always a possibility and the first thing to try.
I rolled back the driver and found an update that was way after the driver which came with the disk & it seems to be fixed.  |
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