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[Closed] PC people: Is my graphics card dying ?

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Text on websites sometimes looks a bit washed out until I select it all; then it goes back to normal.

Occasionally, after sleeping, the PC crashes when I put in the password and when it does, the screen goes very weird for about 2 seconds before it all crashes.

?? ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 30/03/2014 4:01 pm
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Or your monitor is shagged


 
Posted : 30/03/2014 4:59 pm
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Which web browser? Firefox has a setting to change the way it renders text. (Go to about:config and disable gfx.content.azure.enabled)


 
Posted : 30/03/2014 5:57 pm
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cheers

Can a monitor cause a PC to crash ?

(that gfx setting was already disabled, and I miss "here be dragons" ๐Ÿ™ )

I've reloaded latest driver for it and we'll see how it goes

(What graphics card for someone who "ain't playing no games, fool !" ?

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Posted : 30/03/2014 6:03 pm
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Can a monitor cause a PC to crash ?

Only on television.

Does it only do it when recovering from hibernate? Sounds more like a driver issue, that. Disabling hibernate is cheaper than a new graphics card.


 
Posted : 30/03/2014 6:26 pm
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no, weird text can be any time

hib is disabled; this is sleep - does that often cause problems ?


 
Posted : 30/03/2014 6:32 pm
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been googling
created a new boolean doodah in config and set to true:

layout.paint_rects_separately

Might just be working for the text rendering - I'll have to wait & see about the crashing


 
Posted : 30/03/2014 9:09 pm