Hi, I'm having this problem lately when I use Internet Explorer. It has only ever happened while using IE and only in the past few weeks. What has been happening is, every once in a while, I'll open an instance of internet explorer, I'll go to any site, the page will come up and after it loads, it will happen. Sometimes it seems like it happens right after I scroll a page.
The thing that happens is that I get fragmented vertical lines of magenta and sometimes cyan scattered throughout my screen. Everything is completely messed up after that (graphics wise only), I get no error messages or anything of the sort. Just lines, the lines move when I perform an action. Scrolling anything adds a ton, hitting the show desktop thing clears out most of them but the screen is still distorted and anything I do will bring more of them.
I have a strong feeling it is a GDI thing and not a hardware thing. One reason I feel this is because it reminds me of things that used to happen when I would try to make GDI programs and I would end up screwing things up and having to reboot. The other reason is that I am able to capture screenshots of the distortion and save them to view after I have rebooted. One thing that I found pretty interesting was that the icon for the saved clip from the clipboard was still graphically screwed up like it was before I rebooted. Other than that though, rebooting always fixes the problem. Changing resolution, refresh rate, etc has no effect.
I am using Windows 98, my video card is a Radeon 7000 64mb ddr, I'm using the latest version of IE. The last things I did before this started happening was installed a network card, got an external cable modem and cable internet, and installed the latest updates from windows update. I did them in that order and those were all in the same week. How much they have to do with the problem I am not certain, but I know it must have been one of them.
I feel like maybe it was the software I was forced to install along with my cable modem. I disabled all of it, but I had to install it to get registered to use it. I know that it made some modifications to internet explorer, but I rolled back/reinstalled IE 6 to try and remedy this problem. I *only* did that after I was having problems though.
If this problem sounds even remotely familiar, any sugguestions would be welcomed. I tried my best to look for a similar problem. I found a few mentions but nothing quite like what I was experiencing. If you need any other information I'd be happy to provide it. I just can't think of what else to add.. except that its a really annoying problem that I can't seem to figure out
The thing that happens is that I get fragmented vertical lines of magenta and sometimes cyan scattered throughout my screen. Everything is completely messed up after that (graphics wise only), I get no error messages or anything of the sort. Just lines, the lines move when I perform an action. Scrolling anything adds a ton, hitting the show desktop thing clears out most of them but the screen is still distorted and anything I do will bring more of them.
I have a strong feeling it is a GDI thing and not a hardware thing. One reason I feel this is because it reminds me of things that used to happen when I would try to make GDI programs and I would end up screwing things up and having to reboot. The other reason is that I am able to capture screenshots of the distortion and save them to view after I have rebooted. One thing that I found pretty interesting was that the icon for the saved clip from the clipboard was still graphically screwed up like it was before I rebooted. Other than that though, rebooting always fixes the problem. Changing resolution, refresh rate, etc has no effect.
I am using Windows 98, my video card is a Radeon 7000 64mb ddr, I'm using the latest version of IE. The last things I did before this started happening was installed a network card, got an external cable modem and cable internet, and installed the latest updates from windows update. I did them in that order and those were all in the same week. How much they have to do with the problem I am not certain, but I know it must have been one of them.
I feel like maybe it was the software I was forced to install along with my cable modem. I disabled all of it, but I had to install it to get registered to use it. I know that it made some modifications to internet explorer, but I rolled back/reinstalled IE 6 to try and remedy this problem. I *only* did that after I was having problems though.
If this problem sounds even remotely familiar, any sugguestions would be welcomed. I tried my best to look for a similar problem. I found a few mentions but nothing quite like what I was experiencing. If you need any other information I'd be happy to provide it. I just can't think of what else to add.. except that its a really annoying problem that I can't seem to figure out