In a message dated 9/15/03 5:22:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> A customer brought in a machine last week with almost identical symptoms.
> In her case, the graphics circuitry wasn't on a card, but embedded in the
> motherboard, with a take-off socket that was connected to the backplate plug by
> a ribbon cable.
>
> After disconnecting it and installing a PCI gfx card, the problem went away.
>
>
Thanks Ian, I don't have graphics on the mobo. It's a separate AGP card.
The artifacting gets worse the longer I have solitaire/freecell open but now
I'm noticing errant pixels in other programs too. I've got the cover off the
computer but I don't think that's making any difference.
Kevin Nowicki
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