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worker201:
That has happened to me on the Mac as well. Except that usually the line is specific to a certain window, and closing that window causes the line to disappear. I figure it's just the screen drawing routine having a slight malfunction. Flushing the infected screen from memory forces it to be redrawn from scratch, and the problem disappears. The circumstances that can trigger a redraw on the Mac are obviously different in Windows, which is why you get them in screen space instead of window space, and why you have to log out to clear the error. Even if I get one in the Finder, I can relaunch the finder to clear it.
Aloone_Jonez:
I would've thought changing the mode would have cleared the graphics buffer but obviously not.
Have you had the problem on other Macs or is it specific to that machine?
This is the first time this has happened to me on Windows or X11.
The only time this kind of thing has happened to me is with old DOS software or when I've in stalled a bad driver, which normally makes a total mess of the display.
worker201:
Only on this computer.
I've also seen horizontal lines as proof of LCD failure, but those are even visible during boot.
worker201:
Showing off my Firefox Persona. It would probably look better with a blue or white background, but whatever. Look at the browser, look at the browser.
reactosguy:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez on 14 January 2010, 16:50 ---I was browsing the Internet with Opera in Windows XP when a huge black line appeared on the screen. I first I thought my monitor was fucked, but then I realised the mouse cursor was above the black line. I then thought it was a rendering error in Opera so I minimised it but the line was stayed there, overlying the desktop.
I took as screenshot and the line appeared in it which implies it's the graphics card. I tried changed the screen mode to 4-bit 16 colour 640x480 and back again and the line just moved to the left hand side of the screen.
What's weird is I opened up a command line, switched to full screen, loaded MS-DOS editor and the line vanished!
I took the attached screenshot before I played around with changing the mode. The screen mode was 32-bit but I reduced the PNG is 8-bit to make it small enough to attach. I know I could've used JPG but I think it would've looked worse.
Note I'm not asking for Windows help here.
I'll try rebooting, if that doesn't work, I'll reinstall the graphics driver.
EDIT:
The problem was fixed by logging off and logging back on again. The joys of Windows ay. ::)
--- End quote ---
I remember when my Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 AGP had screwed up. I had to get a GeForce FX 6200 AGP licensed by PNY to fix the problem.
It's a shame that 7 year old graphics cards screw up. :'(
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