Artifact on screen - ???

This morning when I started up several programs, all of them had a
sorta half rectangle in the center of the screen. The artifact did
not appear on the desktop itself, but was smack in the middle of every
program. It disappeared on reboot. Any idea what might have caused
this? I've never seen anything like it before...


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The covers of this book are too far apart.

....Ambrose Bierce

Steve wrote:
> This morning when I started up several programs, all of them had a
> sorta half rectangle in the center of the screen. The artifact did
> not appear on the desktop itself, but was smack in the middle of every
> program. It disappeared on reboot. Any idea what might have caused
> this? I've never seen anything like it before...
>
>
First thing I would suspect would be the video card driver or the video
card itself.

Tim

"Steve" <> wrote in message
news:...
> This morning when I started up several programs, all of them had a
> sorta half rectangle in the center of the screen. The artifact did
> not appear on the desktop itself, but was smack in the middle of every
> program. It disappeared on reboot. Any idea what might have caused
> this? I've never seen anything like it before...
>
>
> --
>
> The covers of this book are too far apart.
>
> ...Ambrose Bierce


Possibly just one of those mysterious quirks in the great unfathomable sea
of computing.....

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Jon