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    help please- What is causing these random blury areas of texts?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by m6874h, Apr 16, 2013.

  1. m6874h

    m6874h Notebook Enthusiast

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    Laptop
    Gateway M6874h
    ATI 2600 video card 512mb RAM
    Win7 Pro64 up to date with all the windows updates
    I am using FireFox.

    So in the past week I will get these random areas on the screen where the text is out of focus and or a bit thicker and out of focus. It is not the same area. It is not the entire line/section.

    If I scroll up and back down the blurry part goes away. If I drag the mouse over and move it around ont he blurry part it will also go away.

    Any ideas?

    I have 2 ideas of my own but would like to see if others have this problem or know what it possibly might be causing it.
    **I will start using Chrome after this post to see if it is the browser but I don't think it is.

    Thanks
     
    m6874h, Apr 16, 2013
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    Mr_Mysterious Like...duuuuuude

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    Sounds like a screen issue, not a GPU one. How old is your laptop?

    Mr. Mysterious
     
    Mr_Mysterious, Apr 16, 2013
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    It's about 4 years old or at least 4 years old

    Where is Prostar :)

    I might be on to something. This might be a Firefox issue as I suspected caused with a possible windows 7 update. So far Chrome is okay. I will make the changes in FF and let you guys know.
    http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/952003
     
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  4. Prostar Computer

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    Hey there,

    How long has this been going on? It sounds like a vRAM issue. Since Firefox is one of the few browsers to support hardware acceleration, I think trying another browser is a good first troubleshooting step. :)
     
    Prostar Computer, Apr 16, 2013
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    So updated related, eh? Not surprising. Thanks for the link and follow up, m6874h!

    I wonder if this problem carried over into Pale Moon, as well.
     
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    When I've had things like that happen, it's been the zoom feature that's mucked it up. I just set zoom back to 100% and it went away. But that is an interesting find there, I may have to look into that.
     
    HTWingNut, Apr 19, 2013
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