HP W2207 - Shadows (artifacts) Showing On Desktop
Feb 23, 2014
May be hard to see:
Especially noticeable to the right of the House icon. This just started today or yesterday.
I tried rolling back the video driver but that messed up the computer. The desktop started flashing and only the Taskbar showed. I booted to repair menu by doing a Shift Click on restart then did a System restore to the 20th. It fixed the flashing problem but the shadow is still there.
I'm wondering if this could be a problem with my display. It's a HP w2207. I guess the easy way to find out is boot to BIOS Setup and see if there are shadows or boot a live Linux CD and see if there are shadows.
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Example 1
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I have tried several different things and nothing has worked so far...
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The artifacts are only on the TV screen and not on the laptop display. They cannot be captured with a screenshot (I just tried this and am posting from my computer).
The web search picture (HDMI.jpg) shows small vertical lines in a row after some of the text.
Sort of like this: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
But less than the height of these lines. There is also a set of the lines that follows the mouse cursor around.
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