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[Guest]

One day I just started up my computer and was confused by these little dots
on my screen. They are either red or green depending on what I'm doing on my
computer. They are VERY small and spread out evenly on my computer. Also, all
my desktop icons and text suddenly became larger. The dots are in rows and
columns and there are about five dots in a group. If you could help at all
that would be great.

 

[Curt Christianson]

Hi Anton,

Make sure you are using the most up-to-date video driver (preferably from
the video card manufacturer).
Then try changing the screen resolution, refresh rate, etc., until you find
an acceptable image.

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HTH,
Curt

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[Chuck]

One day I just started up my computer and was confused by these little dots
on my screen. They are either red or green depending on what I'm doing on my
computer. They are VERY small and spread out evenly on my computer. Also, all
my desktop icons and text suddenly became larger. The dots are in rows and
columns and there are about five dots in a group. If you could help at all
that would be great.

You can probably change your desk top settings by right clicking on
the desktop and then properties. There are several different
settings, choose the one you like. As far as the dots, I've never
come across this before. Hopefully when you change the settings, this
will correct the problem.

Chuck
http://www.ebusinesswiz.com/Data_Recovery.html

 

[Malke]

One day I just started up my computer and was confused by these little dots
on my screen. They are either red or green depending on what I'm doing on my
computer. They are VERY small and spread out evenly on my computer. Also, all
my desktop icons and text suddenly became larger. The dots are in rows and
columns and there are about five dots in a group. If you could help at all
that would be great.

You can try updating the drivers as suggested by the others, but this is
probably a hardware issue. Either your monitor or your video card is
failing. To determine which, connect the machine (assuming a desktop
since you didn't say) to a different monitor. If the problem follows
you, then you know it's the computer. If the problem doesn't follow you,
then you know it's the monitor.

If it is the computer, uninstall the video card and swap it out for a
known-working one. If that solves the issue, replace the failing card.

If you have a laptop, you can't do any of the above yourself. Contact
the laptop mftr.'s tech support for assistance.


Malke

 

[RedForeman]

One day I just started up my computer and was confused by these little dots
on my screen. They are either red or green depending on what I'm doing on my
computer. They are VERY small and spread out evenly on my computer. Also, all
my desktop icons and text suddenly became larger. The dots are in rows and
columns and there are about five dots in a group. If you could help at all
that would be great.

if it's an LCD, they could be dead pixels...

RedForeman

 

[Elmo]

One day I just started up my computer and was confused by these little dots
on my screen. They are either red or green depending on what I'm doing on my
computer. They are VERY small and spread out evenly on my computer. Also, all
my desktop icons and text suddenly became larger. The dots are in rows and
columns and there are about five dots in a group. If you could help at all
that would be great.

Three things to try:

- Because the "desktop icons and text suddenly became larger" I suspect
your graphics card lost its drivers. Try reinstalling the drivers for
your graphics card, most likely from the computer manufacturer site,
unless you added a card after purchase.

- Open Display Properties, Settings tab, click and slide the Screen
Resolutions slide to a higher resolution. If the drivers were damaged,
a higher resolution, for both screen and color, won't be available.

- Run DXDiag and see if it complains of uncertified drivers; try
lowering graphics hardware acceleration, etc.. Also look at the
computer manufacturer site and the graphics card manufacturer site for
different drivers. Try upgrades, reference drivers, and drivers for
other model cards till you find one that works. Do a search at
http://groups.google.com entering the game and graphics card model for
more suggestions.

Look for drivers and utilities at these sites:

http://www.guru3d.com/
http://www.reactorcritical.com/download.shtml
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=3&faq=7&Search=
http://www.voodoofiles.com/
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

See if there's a BIOS upgrade for your system. Look at the
manufacturer's site, Compaq, PB, etc., and also at the motherboard
manufacturer's site.