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weird color blotchy bar things

DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
edited October 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
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Does anyone have any idea what would be causing this?

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    A few things could cause that.

    Video card drives are what I suspect.

    Are you running Vista 64 bit?

    Do you have an Nvidia chipset?

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    no. I'm running XP. My computer is six years old. I don't think I have a videocard. I haven't changed any settings in weeks, and it just started doing this blotchy color craziness yesterday.

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    If you have a computer, and it displays things to a monitor-like device that you look at with your human eyes, you have a video card of some kind.

    A 6 year old card could be starting to go bad. Alternately, recent windows updates could have introduced incompatabilities with your 6 year old video drivers. I can only assume you haven't updated them. Its more likely though that after 6 years the video card you most definately do have is old and tired and giving up.

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  • Enos316Enos316 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Update your video drivers.

    Also, strange graphical artifacts like that can be caused by overheating on your video card. If its that old and hasn't been cleaned in awhile I suggest opening it up and using some canned air to get the dust out.

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I've also seen bad RAM do this on a very odd occasion that you have on board video and it shares memory with the main board.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    how would i update my drivers?

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  • ErandusErandus Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Check your Device Manager for your video adaptor.

    It will look something like this:
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    Whatever it says your video card is, start googling.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Erandus wrote: »
    Check your Device Manager for your video adaptor.

    It will look something like this:
    four_device_manager.jpg

    Whatever it says your video card is, start googling.

    i have the intel® 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV graphics controller
    i'm downloading the driver now.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    that seems to have done it. i have no idea why, but it worked. thank you

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