RE: Icon and Fonts distorted

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Brandon wrote:

Thank you for the suggestions.

The device manager shows no errors, everything including the video card is
fine with no errors. I ran chkdisk and no errors exist on the hard drive.
The event log does show errors occurring right at that time but it does
not mention anything about a video driver or hardware issue. I have the
latest driver from nvidia installed. The monitor settings have not
changed, nor the display settings (pixels, resolution, etc.).

You entirely missed what "E. Cox" said: this is most probably a hardware
failure. Software solutions - everything you mentioned above - are useless
with hardware errors.

If the computer is a desktop still under warranty, contact HP tech support.
If the computer is a laptop, contact HP tech support.

If the computer is a desktop and you wish to try to fix this yourself, swap
out the video card for a known-working one. If that solves the issue,
discard the original video card.

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
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