In a message dated 9/15/03 5:22:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > 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 PCBUILD's List Owners: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>