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Thread ID: 65873	2006-02-03 00:43:00	Fonts go haywire - is it heat related?	sam m (517)	Press F1

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426540	2006-02-03 00:43:00	Check this (www.imagef1.net.nz) out please as I am needing advice as to what is the cause. This has occurred a few times over the last 7 months but it was so rare and easily fixed with a reboot. However last night I had need to use Photoshop extensively (havent used it like that for nearly a year) and the above occurred no less than 7 times. Thinking it was heat related I opened the case and got a fan to blow directly into it - and it seemed to work, but because I had nearly completed the job before using the fan I am uncertain. The fonts appear like that all over - desktop, control panel the lot. Interesting is when it first starts I can move the mouse over unaffected fonts and they change to this gobbledegook as I mouse over. Has anyone seen this before? I run regular adaware and spybot. Avg up to date. Windows XP Cheers	sam m (517)
426541	2006-02-03 03:47:00	Never heard of this kind of problem . Given that moving your mouse over a font can corrupt the screen display leads me to think something seriously screwed up with Windows, or more precisely the GDI mouseover/repaint events . It could also be a video card problem, possibly the display driver . On the other hand, Photoshop is very memory intensive, and increased the display corruption, so perhaps your RAM is messed up . Memtest86 could test this part . http://www . memtest86 . com	kingdragonfly (309)
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