What is causing bands on desktop

[Guest]

When no windows are open the desktop display is perfect. When any window is
open bands corresponding to elements on the window display are created on the
desktop. Grey bands also underlay all objects in the window and extend
across its width as well. Can anyone give me an idea of the probable cause
and point me in the directon of a cure ? I have searched the knowledge base
without success.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

When no windows are open the desktop display is perfect. When any window is
open bands corresponding to elements on the window display are created on the
desktop. Grey bands also underlay all objects in the window and extend
across its width as well. Can anyone give me an idea of the probable cause
and point me in the directon of a cure ? I have searched the knowledge base
without success.

Sounds like a problem with your video driver or with your
video adapter. If you reboot in VGA Mode (Press F8 during
the early boot phase) and if the problem is still present then
it's probably a faulty video adapter.

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

When no windows are open the desktop display is perfect. When any
window is open bands corresponding to elements on the window display
are created on the desktop. Grey bands also underlay all objects in
the window and extend across its width as well. Can anyone give me
an idea of the probable cause and point me in the directon of a cure
? I have searched the knowledge base without success.

I've seen this happen when a monitor has gone bad, can you try another
monitor on it?

 

[Guest]

I do not have another monitor available. In an attempt to determine if this
is a problem with all applications, I tried playing a DVD and got a message
that aspi32 was missing for my player. However, according to Microsoft this
aspi is not to be used with Win2000. I installed a patch from the company
that produced the player and it functioned normally (no banding in the player
window) except that I had to set the monitor to maximum brightness to see the
image. The window which contained the player did create banding on the
desktop, however. Do you feel that this confirms a monitor problem, or is it
possible that there is a software problem ? I updated the NVIDIA driver to
the latest version, with no effect. Operating in VGA mode also did not
eliminate the banding.

 

[Guest]

I updated the NVIDIA driver to the latest version, with no effect. Operating
in VGA mode also did not eliminate the banding. In an attempt to determine
if this is a problem with all applications, I tried playing a DVD and got a
message that aspi32 was missing for my player. However, according to
Microsoft this aspi is not to be used with Win2000. I installed a patch from
the company that produced the player and it functioned normally (no banding
in the player window) except that I had to set the monitor to maximum
brightness to see the image. The window which contained the player did
create banding on the desktop, however. Do you feel that this indicates a
monitor problem, a possible software problem, or do you believe that it is
the adapter ?

 

[Guest]

This probably won't help any but I am having the exact same issue on one of
my computers. I tried swapping the monitor, changing the motherboard (video
adapter is AGP), even removed the HD and installed in a different computer
w/similar hardware and had the exact same problem. I also installed the
latest drivers. It's driving me crazy and there does not appear to be a thing
I can do to fix it. Any thoughts?

 

[Vince]

Not sure exactly what happened but I did have a similer problem once and it
turned out that I had a neon window sign. When the sign is off no problems
when the sign is on the problems came back.

I just happen to figure this out because I was sitting at the computer the
exact moment the timer kicked in and the problem occured.

So please check around and see if anything in the area could be causing
this.