try defragmenting your hard drive. then check to see if there are any
problems with you video card because it sounds like there is a problem
somewhere on the video chip or card. I'll get back to you on this one.
"JB" <no.nope.net> wrote in message
news:keidnZ2daa3Dw0zeRVn-jQ@adelphia.com...
>I have a toshiba P30 mobile desktop. It's heavy but it serves its purpose.
>Occasionally, when I restart it, the screen will partially echo information
>horizontal of the true pixels in the form of dos-cursor sized underscore
>shapes. - certainly, the symptoms are digital in fashion (uniform noise
>particle shapes) and not analog.
>
> So A nice clean line like this
> |
> |
> |
>
> will turn out looking like the following in a noisy animated fashion...
>
> | - _- -
> | -- _ -
> | - -
>
> with the intended pixels repeated.
>
> So that I may research this problem, I'd like to know what it might be
> called? Even better, if you know what causes this....
>
> It would seem that the video memory is receiving a pixel map, but some
> logic in the video card is randomizing the output - that the problem is
> after the video memory, but before the monitor output. Perhaps an AD
> converter is picking up some noise somewhere that modifies the pixel
> output.. *shrug*.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -JB
>