Blank boxes showing up instead of menus

[super00141]

Hey, this is my first post so sorry if i got it in the wrong area of the site... anyway. this mac is about 6 months old, i haven't downloaded anything recently. i have tried restarting, shutting down, logging in and out, and all. this is also happening on all my other accounts on this mac. (this is the Air if that helps.) i have never seen this before. what is happening is every time i right click, or click something int he tool bar, or anything that has a drop down menu (even the google search on top of safari) is like this, it is just a box, no words one colour. it seems to be whatever colour the pixel is i click on. be it white black blue cream whatever. after i click off it i can see the words for a split second. any help?

 

[McGiord]

those look like sticky notes without any content displayed

 

[super00141]

good point, ill make a video so you guys will believe me.

damn it can't make a video :/ can't find my screen recorder in this mess. ill add more pics though.

see in the last pic, stickies have a little rectangle on the top, as these do not. so these aren't stickies, anyone m=help? i can't find stuff on my computer!!!

 

[McGiord]

It is not lack of trust, that was just an observation.

Some ideas:
Try booting in Safe Mode.

Do you have any other Bootable Volume?
Give it a try.

Run Disk Utility, check and repair disk as needed.

Run Apple Hardware Test.

Try re-installing OS X.

 

[super00141]

thanks, in safe mode works, but i can't access youtube or play videos, or change the volume...

 

[McGiord]

Safe Mode is for troubleshooting or diagnostics.

If it is working fine under Safe Mode, it seems to be a software issue.

Open the console log and check what is goin on.

Run Disk Utility and check the disk.

http://www.gballard.net/macrant/osx_troubleshooting.html

 

[super00141]

do you have a video i can see? when i click on the options on disk utilities i can't see what I'm clicking. and i don't want to accidentally earase something or something.