Video trouble
The ATI-based graphics card in Aphrodite – the workstation – has run into trouble. Fast changes in a window, or many changes within a short period, cause the card to break; the screen gets scrambled, and at times, the computer will hang, or, as I encountered today, reboot spontanously.
Even on ‘normal’ use, there will be some bits that are bad – like half-height double quotes. or at times, discoloured bars; window and button boundaries may be mirrored pixels off the real boundary. When that happens, the problem will soon occur…
It happens in all three environments (the original Windows environment, the alternate one, and under Ubuntu); it all started after I installed the alternate Windows environment – or was it after Ubuntu was installed? It looks like any of these caused trouble, but that seems to be weird.
Or is it the extra memory, or disk?
I probably need a new video card – and if so, I’ll take one without fan but a heat sink. Spaces enough in the box 😉
As a result of this behaviour, I cannot use Google Earth. The card will break on the starting page that zooms in onto the planet: Too many updates….
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center