Dan: I agree it's probably the GPU chip. One other thing to check is whether your disk light is solid on when this happens. I've seen something similar when the AV scan overloaded the disk I/O channel so nothing else could run. But that didn't require a reboot to fix, just time.
_______________________ Robert Rosen CIO NIAMS Sent from the portable shiny device > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:59:56 -0800 > From: "Dan Galender" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Thinkpad] Extremely Annoying Screen Artifacts > To: "'ThinkPad Mailing List'" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I have a T61p running Windows 7 (64-bit) and recently I started experiencing > a very annoying thing happening. When I right-click on menu items in > various applications (including Windows Explorer) certain menu selections > remain on the screen (white text on a blue banner). This graphic sits on > top of any other windows I open and the only thing that I have come up with > to clear it is to restart the machine. > > Anyone else ever see this happen or know how to get rid of it? > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
