Artifacts on screen.

[K3mp]

The MBP was bought in Feb and now it has a long line of artifacts on the menu bar. I found a temp. fix by hooking it up to a display, mirroring the display then unplugging it. But when I reboot it is back. This started 2 nights ago. Also When I do the fix everything is fine, but it is a pain to do. Also in iTunes video does play fine during the fix but when the artifacts are there video sucks. also the little x in itunes to x out a movie shows up fine. Right now the GPU temp is going between 57 and 67 degrees Fahrenheit. It is a SR with a 128 MB video card.

 

[noodle654]

Picture??? I dont really understand what you are saying.

 

[K3mp]

Heres one some. I did my temp. fix to get the menu bar ones away. I also forgot to mention I did an archive and install.

 

[operator207]

I have not seen that before, but it looks like the "Blue Matrix" has you.

 

[MagicBoy]

Always in the same place or do the artefacts move around?

 

[K3mp]

they are consistant on the menu bar but every once in a while if a open a window with something moving I get some. Sorry it took so long to reply the hurricane just came through the power is out and I'm posting from a friend's iPhone 3g because my 1st ten iphone can't get a signal.

 

[newbie jnr]

it's not just part of the itunes visualizer?

 

[ajhaji]

Does your MBP have an NVIDIA graphics chip in it? Could be on the verge of failing. Time to send it in for repair!

 

[winninganthem]

This might help you: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/6148716/

In sum,
Log out and log back in again and see if the problem persists.

If fixed, to avoid this problem in the future:
Log out before you ever sleep your computer.

I'm not sure if your specific issue will be fixed by this graphics-problem-workaround that I found on another forum, but give it a try and let us know how it goes.

If this workaround fixes your problem, it will prove that the MBP's graphics issues come from sleep-->awake and awake-->sleep actions.

 

[creator2456]

Reminds me a little of my problem that is happening. I haven't taken the time to have Apple look at it yet, but i think I should.

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