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Darran

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Mar 31, 2008
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On several occasions, when I am playing a game or viewing a streaming video via boot camp, I will get a screen in several rainbowish colors, with the display distorted. Has anyone of you encountered such a glitch before? Do you know a fix for it?
 

markusm

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Feb 10, 2008
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Studio City, CA
On several occasions, when I am playing a game or viewing a streaming video via boot camp, I will get a screen in several rainbowish colors, with the display distorted. Has anyone of you encountered such a glitch before? Do you know a fix for it?

I've had something similar when I boot to Windows. Sometimes. It's not consistent. I think I may have a picture of it. Here.
Because it isn't happening all the time I've been unable to figure it out.
 

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Nov 16, 2006
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Have you tried different drivers? This could also be from overheating
 

markusm

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Feb 10, 2008
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Studio City, CA
Have you tried different drivers? This could also be from overheating

I doubt it is for me since it happens mainly when I start the machine. Even when it's been turned off for "a while". It could be the driver since I am running Win XP x64 on boot camp.
 

UnInvincible

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Jan 30, 2008
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I think I have the same thing happening as you, I had a thread going on this, with no real solutions, click on my name and go to the thread to see if my pictures are similar to your monitor...
I'd really appreciate a solution too
 

Hmac

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May 30, 2007
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I've had something similar when I boot to Windows. Sometimes. It's not consistent. I think I may have a picture of it. Here.
Because it isn't happening all the time I've been unable to figure it out.

I was getting the exact same thing if I restarted from OSX into Windows via Boot Camp. My solution was to shut down OSX completely, then hit the power button again holding down the option key. Hasn't happened since. I suspect that the driver for the 1900XT under Windows isn't getting time to load properly.
 
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