Weird screen corruption in XP

[Ron Menelli]

I'm having some odd screen corruption issues on my system
running XP Pro. When my machine (a laptop) comes out of
hibernation, I get a lot of strange corruption. The
navigation buttons in IE are messed up - usually the
forward button, and occasionally other buttons as well.
If I have ClearType enabled, ALL text is corrupted - I
changed to Standard text smoothing and that eliminated
the text corruption. Other things are corrupted as well.
For example, in this newsgroup reader window I'm using
right now - the "microsoft.public.windowsxp.general <<
Page X of Y >> " header gets corrupted if I scroll it off
screen or cover it with another window.

This problem started happening yesterday - before that,
it was fine. I didn't install any new software yesterday
or anything like that.

Does anyone know what this might be, or how I might start
to debug this?

 

[Martin]

I'm having some odd screen corruption issues on my system
running XP Pro. When my machine (a laptop) comes out of
hibernation, I get a lot of strange corruption. The
navigation buttons in IE are messed up - usually the
forward button, and occasionally other buttons as well.
If I have ClearType enabled, ALL text is corrupted - I
changed to Standard text smoothing and that eliminated
the text corruption. Other things are corrupted as well.
For example, in this newsgroup reader window I'm using
right now - the "microsoft.public.windowsxp.general <<
Page X of Y >> " header gets corrupted if I scroll it off
screen or cover it with another window.

This problem started happening yesterday - before that,
it was fine. I didn't install any new software yesterday
or anything like that.

Does anyone know what this might be, or how I might start
to debug this?

Why not try running System File Checker?
From a Command Prompt type

sfc /?

for syntax and usage notes.

Try

sfc /scannow

have your XP CD-ROM to hand as you'll be prompted for it to restore any
corrupt/missing files.

Martin.