Are my pixels dying??

craaaaaig · 21 Jul 2008 at 21:02

Just now I have realised small green dots on my screen, although.. they do not show up when just browsing normal internet such as here, only on images.
They move around on different images.

I'm also getting small purple dots filling the rest of the line as I type right now.
At first I thought my firefox could be playing up as also, at the bottom of my current tab I seem to be getting a very slim (0.5? pixel) line of green static??!
but a few appear on my desktop background too.

I'd like to say they look more like artifacts, playing day of defeat they mostly appear on walls as a green static.

Whats going on!

philjohn · 21 Jul 2008 at 23:02

Are you running Vista?

craaaaaig · 21 Jul 2008 at 23:31

Nope, XP service pack 1.

DrBombcrater · 22 Jul 2008 at 00:45

Take a screenshot using the PrintScreen key, save it out using Paint or something and look at it on another computer. If the corrupted pixels show up on the screenshot then your graphics card is the problem, if they don't it's the monitor.

jack.mitchell · 22 Jul 2008 at 01:02

DrBombcrater said:
Take a screenshot using the PrintScreen key, save it out using Paint or something and look at it on another computer. If the corrupted pixels show up on the screenshot then your graphics card is the problem, if they don't it's the monitor.

Yeah I agree, it sounds more like a graphics card problem than monitor. Have you cleaned the fans out from dust recently, this can be caused due to overheating. Try running ATItool's furry test cube thing and see if it registers artifacts.

Oh yeah ATI tool also works for nvidia graphics cards

Good Luck.

muon · 22 Jul 2008 at 01:04

Also at the very least service pack 2, since your machine can be taken over very easily otherwise.

philjohn · 22 Jul 2008 at 10:45

I would guess graphics card as well, hence why I asked about Vista (since Aero runs using your cards 3D acceleration).

craaaaaig · 22 Jul 2008 at 12:42

Just removed a large amount of dust from my cards fan, temp went down from 65 to 55 but nothings changed

Is 55C hot for idle graphics? I havent messed around with it for years so dont remember what it should be running at..

fish99 · 22 Jul 2008 at 13:46

DrBombcrater said:
Take a screenshot using the PrintScreen key, save it out using Paint or something and look at it on another computer. If the corrupted pixels show up on the screenshot then your graphics card is the problem, if they don't it's the monitor.

^ Do this.

55 degrees idle doesn't sound too bad btw. Which screen and video card do you have btw?

Cob · 22 Jul 2008 at 17:35

Green pixels were the first sign of my old X300 dying.

Tetras · 22 Jul 2008 at 17:40

playing day of defeat they mostly appear on walls as a green static

Aliens man, get outta there!

Yup.. sounds like your graphics card has had it...