Robert- No, I the disk light is not on when that happens, but now I'm remembering one other thing that could be related. Even more often than the menu item being left on the screen, I have many times a day when the cursor turns into an "icon" of a small scroll-bar and pointer arrow and the system is completely frozen. I have to wait 30-40 seconds for it to unfreeze. Anyone know if that could be another symptom of the bad chip?
-Dan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E] Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 7:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Extremely Annoying Screen Artifacts 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 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
