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January 11th, 2000 04:00
Windows not drawing correctly
I have a brand-new XPS T600r with a voodoo3 3000D, and occasionally, Windows? will stop drawin the icons, any windows I change, and any menus. It will start drawing them pixel by pixel if I move the mouse horizontally back and forth. Sometimes this doesn't work, and I have to move the mouse up and down. It happens most reliably in Microsoft Imaging, but also happens in MSPaint, POV-Ray, and normal windows. It does not appear to be time related either.
I have reinstalled windows, reinstalled the mouse drivers, and set the hardware acelleration to none. Neither have worked.
Please help me!
Lewis
I have reinstalled windows, reinstalled the mouse drivers, and set the hardware acelleration to none. Neither have worked.
Please help me!
Lewis
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Kay H
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January 11th, 2000 11:00
Hi Lewis,
This is a shot in the dark, but the one thing I can see that you haven't done is to get the latest reference drivers for your video card. Those would be more current than the drivers your system came to you with.
In addition, unless your video card comes with 32 MB RAM (sorry--I'm totally unfamiliar with it), I would set the display to Hi Color, rather than True Color, to reduce the strain on the card. This cuts errors for the lower MB RAM cards without much visible display degradation to you.
I do not have your card, so I can't tell you where to get them, but generally it's from the chipset manufacturer for the video card--mine is an NVidia chipset, for example, so I get reference drivers from NVidia.
Unless someone else can help out here, I would start there.
Good luck,
Kay