kerhst
Feb 6, 2007, 09:23 PM
My tech support friend and I have been trying to resolve a problem on my system, running XP SP2 and an ATI Radeon 9600, that appeared in the last 24 hours. The symptoms are as follows:
1. Certain mouse pointers have a vertical line about 10 pixels to the left of the center of the pointer. The line is about 150% as tall as a text insert pointer and the top lines up with the top of your typical "I" shaped text insert pointer. The affected pointers appear to be any input symbol. Ie: text insert pointer in MS Word, Firefox or IE, MS Outlook, the + in MS Excel and all Photoshop pointers. This list is not exhaustive.
2. Behind or even on top of certain graphics is a pink grid of dots. These graphics include, but are not limited to, MSN Messenger taskbar icon when signed in, behind the monitor preview of a screen saver or desktop background in desktop properties dialogue and even in the xp when it is booting up. The grid appears close to the following:
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But across the whole image.
3. A grid of similar pattern, but much larger scale appears in Win Media Player 10, in the play area, when a video is playing. This does not affect the visualizations when a song is playing.
After a complete virus scan, system restore, software & driver update and thorough web search I can find no solution to the problem. The only positive result is that now the MSN Messenger taskbar icon no longer appears to be displaying the pink grid but it is everywhere else as before. This may be two separate problems but they appeared at the same time without any updates, new software or other significant change to the system.
Any help or suggested course of action would be appreciated
1. Certain mouse pointers have a vertical line about 10 pixels to the left of the center of the pointer. The line is about 150% as tall as a text insert pointer and the top lines up with the top of your typical "I" shaped text insert pointer. The affected pointers appear to be any input symbol. Ie: text insert pointer in MS Word, Firefox or IE, MS Outlook, the + in MS Excel and all Photoshop pointers. This list is not exhaustive.
2. Behind or even on top of certain graphics is a pink grid of dots. These graphics include, but are not limited to, MSN Messenger taskbar icon when signed in, behind the monitor preview of a screen saver or desktop background in desktop properties dialogue and even in the xp when it is booting up. The grid appears close to the following:
...
...
...
...
...
But across the whole image.
3. A grid of similar pattern, but much larger scale appears in Win Media Player 10, in the play area, when a video is playing. This does not affect the visualizations when a song is playing.
After a complete virus scan, system restore, software & driver update and thorough web search I can find no solution to the problem. The only positive result is that now the MSN Messenger taskbar icon no longer appears to be displaying the pink grid but it is everywhere else as before. This may be two separate problems but they appeared at the same time without any updates, new software or other significant change to the system.
Any help or suggested course of action would be appreciated