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    Alt+Tab Strange error

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Hagan, Sep 8, 2009.

  1. Hagan

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    I recently received my m17 and found an error rather quick. When I'm playing games such as wow and aion if I alt+tab sometimes when i tab back to the game my screen everything is multicolored(you can still see the outlines of everything just the inside of textures is like a rainbow). If i alt tab again then back in it is fixed. I tried to take a screenshot of it but the screenshot came out normal without the multicolored game. At the time of these errors my gpu's aren't overheated I monitor them with cpuid hardware monitor. Has anyone else experienced an error like this and are there any solutions?

    My system specs are
    Alienware M17
    Dual 512mb 3870's
    2.80Ghz T9600
    4Gb DDR3 1066 RAM
    160GB 7200 HDD
     
    Hagan, Sep 8, 2009
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