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Thread ID: 68486 2006-04-30 23:27:00 Dots, dots and more dots! tophook (10328) Press F1
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450940 2006-04-30 23:27:00 Am I going dotty?? Now don't laugh but over the last few months my cursor seems to have developed the knack of collecting lines and rows of dots alongside it which is irritating the you know what out of me! This also manifests at times by making horizontal lines on the monitor and making the screen go lighter showing the dots.
I don't recall this beginning after any particular download but can't honestly be positive of that.
I've run virus checks galore (Nortons), anti spam programmes (Spy Bot) and Nuker Xt with no joy.
This happened on my Viewsonic monitor and now happens on the Philips monitor I have so that tends to rule out a monitor problem.
I run XP Pro with SP2.
If anyone can help out I would be extremely grateful :badpc:
tophook (10328)
450941 2006-05-01 01:33:00 To me it looks like a video card or a ram problem. Pancake (6359)
450942 2006-05-01 06:03:00 When was the last time you cleaned your spectacle or contact lens? :P
As the old hand Pancake said, I think the problem lies in the video card. Have you tried updating the driver of your video card?

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
450943 2006-05-01 09:29:00 Its unlikely to be a driver problem, I've had similar problems a long time ago with old ISA/VESA video cards and it's been faulty video card memory, it doesn't seem to happen so much these days. Terry Porritt (14)
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