Um this pattern seems to appear quite randomly.... When I hover over icons on the desktop, the message seems to cast a shadow of the same height of the message, but stretched across the right side of the screen. I don't know if this is monitor or graphics related, so I put it in Graphics. This also seems to effect games that I play as well... If anyone can shed some light on this, I would be grateful.


Thanks

Hello Dave
What are your PC specs? Once we know that, we can get you updated drivers and see if that solves the problem.

Display Devices
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Card name: Radeon X1950 Pro
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor AGP (0x7280)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_7280&SUBSYS_217217AF&REV_9A
Display Memory: 512.0 MB
Current Mode: 1024 x 768 (32 bit) (85Hz)
Monitor: Dell P780
Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6734 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 11/1/2007 20:09:00, 268288 bytes

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Sound Devices
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Description: SB Audigy Audio [B800]
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0004&SUBSYS_00541102&REV_03
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.0285 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: n/a
Date and Size: 7/2/2003 16:52:00, 493280 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: Creative
HW Accel Level: Full
Cap Flags: 0x0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: Yes
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Registry: OK
Sound Test Result: Not run


Motherboard
Motherboard MFG : ASUSTek Computer Inc.
Motherboard Model number : P4SD-VX
Motherboard Chipset : Intel i865P/PE/G/i848P
BIOS version : American Megatrends Inc. version: 2005 date:10/29/2004

Memory
Number of Memory Modules installed : 3
Memory Manufacturer(s) : Kingston, PQI CORP, Hyundai Electronics
Memory Size (s) : 1GB, 512MB, 512MB
Memory Speed (s) : 1GB(166Mhz/200Mhz), 512MB(166Mhz/200Mhz), 512MB(133Mhz, 166Mhz, 200Mhz)


Its running on a P4 processor 3.2 with 2 gigs of ram

Sorry for double posting. The Edit button doesn't seem to show up on my latest post so I have no choice. Anyways, I think this is a better example of my problem.

This problem has not gone away. I would really appreciate some help. ty