On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Fedora 17 and 18 I sometimes get a display like nothing else I > know. It's made up of short horizontal lines, some in color, arranged > into long diagonals that cover the screen, with about the angle of a > backslash. The little lines in each group are parallel, and there's > always a little space between every group and the next. > > It comes up suddenly, on a key press or a mouse click. > > Once it comes up, it owns the machine -- nothing the mouse or > keyboard can do (that I know of, anyway) has any effect, and I have to > hit the reset button. > Probably, your graphics card is dying. If you have a separate card, get a new one. If it's part of the motherboard, get a new motherboard. > I have yet to discover any correlation with any user action : > afaict, some power of darkness arms the trigger, apparently randomly, and > the next thing I do brings on the crash. > Probably heat related. The card gets to a certain temperature, then dies. > Has anyone else seen this? Diagnosed it? Found any prevention or > cure?? > I've seen similar crud on a laptop with a dying video card. A new motherboard fixed it until that, too, died. -- Dale Dellutri
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