Macbook (unibody) Graphic error , super strange windows 7

[finnschi]

So I guess I found a leak in the way how the macbook treats old memory still on the chip!

I have the Newest macbook late 2008 Unibody 2,4 Ghz... 2gb Ram and a 320Gb HDD

so I was just booting up my Windows 7 Beta using Bootcamp (works great btw) to play some Command and conquer Red Alert 3 !(awesome Game! )

So i was playing for about 2 Hours, than reeboting into OSX, after another 30 minutes I fired up Halo (universal) and what did I see? my whole screen FULL of some parts of the start screen from C&C RA3 and after some more screen flashing I actually saw a whole Ingame "screenshot" from the mission i finished last!

So how did this happen?? I am confused because my Leopard is on a different partition then Windows7 and the Video memory should have been cleared? no?

 

[jav6454]

So I guess I found a leak in the way how the macbook treats old memory still on the chip!

I have the Newest macbook late 2008 Unibody 2,4 Ghz... 2gb Ram and a 320Gb HDD

so I was just booting up my Windows 7 Beta using Bootcamp (works great btw) to play some Command and conquer Red Alert 3 !(awesome Game! )

So i was playing for about 2 Hours, than reeboting into OSX, after another 30 minutes I fired up Halo (universal) and what did I see? my whole screen FULL of some parts of the start screen from C&C RA3 and after some more screen flashing I actually saw a whole Ingame "screenshot" from the mission i finished last!

So how did this happen?? I am confused because my Leopard is on a different partition then Windows7 and the Video memory should have been cleared? no?

Try another reboot. If that doesn't help try shutting down completely then turning back on after a few minutes. If that doesn't do it, try AppleCare.

 

[finnschi]

First Thank you for the VERY fast reply!

Well its not a big issue for me.. i just wondered how anything like that Could happen! If anyone has a clue on how the video memory is not cleared up and is beign adress wrong(by Halo) ... please explain it

 

[jav6454]

First Thank you for the VERY fast reply!

Well its not a big issue for me.. i just wondered how anything like that Could happen! If anyone has a clue on how the video memory is not cleared up and is beign adress wrong(by Halo) ... please explain it

No problem. I don't know how in the world your previous screen was not cleared out. I can only assumed/guess it has something to do with your graphics chip not properly clearing out cache because of a small error.

I also think it may be a LCD image memory related thing. (example, when you look at a light for a moment and look away, you still see the light's silhouette.) Maybe, your LCD didn't clear out the previous image.

Those are my guesses.

 

[finnschi]

No problem. I don't know how in the world your previous screen was not cleared out. I can only assumed/guess it has something to do with your graphics chip not properly clearing out cache because of a small error.

Well Good guess, but I dont think my Grapics cards cache is used for that, that kind of information goes directly to the RAM(which is shared with main Ram ...)

I also think it may be a LCD image memory related thing. (example, when you look at a light for a moment and look away, you still see the light's silhouette.) Maybe, your LCD didn't clear out the previous image.

Neither that, the LCD can't save images , since it simply doesen't have memory



Btw i tried starting Halo once again, no error this time! One Hit wonder...