T41p is showing strange patterns ..

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akerman · #1 Post by **akerman** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:34 am

Just check out this screenshot:
http://www.eple.dk/images/weird.PNG

Yesterday it was fine, and now 10 minutes ago when I booted it looked like this..

What the h.. is wrong? Never seen anything like this before. The patterns change a bit, at boot they have other colours etc.
But if you can see it too, on a screenshot, it's not a hardware problem right? But if it isn't, howcome it's there at boot.. hmm

ipark · #2 Post by **ipark** » Thu May 11, 2006 2:08 am

good question. my friends i series is doing the same thing.

how did you take screen shots?

akerman · #3 Post by **akerman** » Thu May 11, 2006 2:22 am

With "print screen".. strange thing is it dissapeared before. Now it's back. It fluctuates a bit when I click links, and move dialog boxes etc. Also has an effect when I go from 16 to 32bit and reverse...

Now I'm thinking hardware malfunction with the video card

#4 Post by **GomJabbar** » Thu May 11, 2006 6:21 am

akerman wrote:Now I'm thinking hardware malfunction with the video card

I agree. Sorry.

cmarti · #5 Post by **cmarti** » Thu May 11, 2006 11:43 am

Agreed your problem is with the GPU.

Try disabling the Video Adapter in Devise Manager.

Reebot.

If the screen looks fine that means GPU is dead.

#6 Post by **GomJabbar** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:08 pm

cmarti's post gave me an idea. You could try turning off hardware acceleration in the display property settings for the graphics adapter. It might only be the accelerator causing problems.

akerman · #7 Post by **akerman** » Mon May 15, 2006 11:35 pm

Thanks.. tried both of your suggestions to no avail. So there is probably a hardware malfunction..

which means I'll have to pay dearly to ship into service, which was an absolutely horrible experience last time. Argh

turbolium · #8 Post by **turbolium** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:34 pm

my mouse on t42 sometimes leaves "dead" pixel
as a result of bad mouse drivers
try to reinstall/update drivers for as much things you can
maybe it will fix it

good luck!

bfgun · #9 Post by **bfgun** » Thu May 18, 2006 11:48 am

had a similar issue. planar board got replaced on my t40 machine.

bad vid card.

T41p is showing strange patterns ..

T41p is showing strange patterns ..

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