10.6.5 Update causes minor graphic corruption?

On my Macbook, I notice the following when I open a program: as the icon bounces in the dock, the edges of the icon become jagged or pixelated and appear to "crawl" a little. This is especially noticeable when opening word or excel since the icons have curved edges. Further when I set the dock to maximum zoom, the edges of the icons are slightly jagged. I have 2 laptops and the one I did not yet update (it's still 10.6.4) does not display this issue. Further, the one that does have the issue is my primary computer and this is something that I noticed within 2 minutes of updating to 10.6.5 using the combo updater.
Anyone else have this issue?

I would repair disk and repair permissions. Could be a simple reboot will straighten out this anomaly.
If not from the terminal you can try the following:
You can try to rebuild your launch Service Database, this can help repair problems with incorrect icons in OS X. Open terminal and paste:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
you do not have to enter return just wait for the process to complete. It will put you back out at the prompt.
This maybe followed up with the
killall Dock
This will relaunch the Dock.
exit to end terminal session and quit terminal.
Hope this solves your problem

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10.6.5 Update causes minor icon corruption?

On my Macbook, I notice the following when I open a program: as the icon bounces in the dock, the edges of the icon become jagged or pixelated and appear to "crawl" a little. This is especially noticeable when opening itunes, word or excel since the icons have curved edges. Further when I set the dock to maximum zoom, the edges of the icons are slightly jagged. I have 2 laptops and the one I did not yet update (it's still 10.6.4) does not display this issue. Further, the one that does have the issue is my primary computer and this is something that I noticed within 2 minutes of updating to 10.6.5 using the combo updater.
Anyone else have this issue?

I would repair disk and repair permissions. Could be a simple reboot will straighten out this anomaly.
If not from the terminal you can try the following:
You can try to rebuild your launch Service Database, this can help repair problems with incorrect icons in OS X. Open terminal and paste:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchSe rvices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
you do not have to enter return just wait for the process to complete. It will put you back out at the prompt.
This maybe followed up with the
killall Dock
This will relaunch the Dock.
exit to end terminal session and quit terminal.
Hope this solves your problem

Windows Updates causing PSD files to corrupt?

I was curious as to if anyone else has ever had an issue with Windows Updates performing (possibly the updates that came out this week for various Microsoft products) in XP causing PSD file corruption in certain files?
The situation I'm looking at is that one of our users' computer had an update, which installed yesterday. Suddenly, 2-3 PSD files (which I am able to open on my own computer) are giving an error when trying to load of "Could not complete your request because it is not a valid Photoshop document." Tried recreating the prefs folder to no avail.
The only solution that worked was performing a system restore to a previous date. However then today the computer reinstalled the update again and the files appeared to corrupt again and not open. Other PSD files are still opening fine (as well as importing via Place in Illustrator), its just these particular few that are not (they will not place in Illustrator, giving a similar error message saying it is not a valid file type).
Any ideas, or anyone else having similar symptoms?

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Graphic corruption, motherboard causing it?

Hello all, I have a MSI K8T-Neo FISR2R KT800 motherboard with a amd64 3.0+ Ghz CPU, Gainward GF6800GT and SB Audigy. The problem started about 1-2 months ago when suddenly small parts of my screen on the desktop went corrupted momentarly. However, this didnt occur too often and I didnt give it much attention.
Anyhow, about 3 days ago the problem reached its climax. The corruption showed itself in several games wich would result in a freeze and eventually, a reboot. My first thought was that it was OS related, so I reformated my harddrive and installed the latest drivers in hope to get rid of this problem. Right now the problem is that when I run games or certain applications, the screen is black (although the monitor does not go to powersave mode) while the program/game runs normally. The video output has gone away, so to say. Also some winamp visualizations are rendered as black or corrupted. I changed the videocard to a GForce FX 5200 and the same problems remains.
However, If i change the rendering device in unreal tournament 2004 to openGL, then the game runs normally. My directX is 9.0c. What could be wrong here? I dont have anything OC'ed, and I have excellent cooling on both my CPU and GPU. my PSU gives 400W and thats more than enough i belive (if it was a power related issue, then the problems would have ceased with FX 5200 since it dosent require a power wire attached to it).
Could it be the motherboard that has gone bad? in that case, why can it render some graphics and some not at all?
TIA

Quote from: Tiresmoke on 28-November-05, 01:02:43
Hmmm never saw one do that yet. Power? Yes it could be but I don't think so in this case where the second vid card that uses less power does the same. Motherboard? I would not think that it can selectively corrupt just a certain section of the screen. The Motherboard does not create a screen matrix. It sends stuff to the video card more in line with a stream of data over several pipelines. While that is an oversimplification it gets you to visualize how it works.
There is one more device in the chain though that could mess up consistantly at the matrix level and that is the monitor. I think I would considure that before I would the MB.
Just my humble opinion
that sounds like a unlikely cause, considering the freeze i mentioned earlier but i did however try with another monitor, and the problem remained.
Lets see... if both the GPU's are fine, the mobo seem to be unlikely to be defect, and no recent BIOS changes has been done, what else could be the cause? I think it could be the software but since this is a fresh install and I shoved in new drivers and all...
Still it dosent explain how those small graphic corruptions on the desktop escalated to complete freezes and eventually a complete black screen...

Tired of graphical corruption resulting in depth changing to 256 colours.

When will the bug in the Boot Camp WinXP ATI Radeon 2600 HD Pro (mid-2007 24" 2.8GHz iMac that causes graphical corruption resulting in colour depth switching to 256 colours be fixed? This happens after a random time running WinXP (from mere minutes to hours), and can only be fixed by restart.
Years have gone by and Boot Camp updates, reinstalling Windows, a new 24" iMac (same model sigh), and tearing my hair out in frustration as Applecare support and bug reports achieve nothing has left me rather disillusioned. FYI - Apple Boot Camp graphics driver is the only one that works with my model iMac.
Still, it's gone on for so long I'm nearly ready to buy a new iMac. Can anyone tell me if this problem exists in any of the new models? Hopefully not since they use different GPUs, but given Apple's inability to sort even this most basic and glaring of bugs, I thought it wise to ask first.

This appears to have resolved the issue on restarting the system. I guess I must have accidentally moved this slider while looking through the system settings.
It doesn't explain how rotating the display twice "fixes" (or reverts) the changes made. That's a matter for a dev team if they ever want to bother looking into it though.
Many thanks for the help,
Duncan.

Graphical corruption in X after playing media or using chromium

In SMPlayer (xv output) and sdlmame, when I switch to full screen, afterwards X will show graphical corruption. This does not seem to happen with VLC or GnomeMPlayer.
For SMPlayer, the task bar space between icons and the pager, and the rest of it after the pager will become unreadable and just a mess of grey and coloured lines. After about a minute when the clock applet updates the time, it will redraw and become readable again (only the clock applet, not the whole bar). To make the rest visible too, I have to move the mouse over it and click the icons (volume, brightness, and so on) so they get redrawn.
In the case of sdlmame, the desktop background picture even gets corrupted in maybe its top 25% area over the full screen width.
When I start chromium web browser, the top part of the browser window and the task bar above it will flicker like crazy with corrupted lines. Sometimes the whole window will flicker, I think. This happens mostly while typing in an URL, and leaves the same corruption in the task bar as SMPlayer (->have to mouseover/click on the icons to make them redraw).
It happens _all the time_ if I just move the mouse over the website (for examle google translate). I don't even have to click on anything, just moving will make the whole upper half of the chromium window flicker like crazy with corrupted lines, rendering the page unreadable.
In Firefox this problem does not occur at all.
I'm using Xfce4 and Compositor is disabled.
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I am now pretty sure that this is a software bug in Leopard. I have been back to Tiger for 10 days straight now and the problem hasn't reoccurred.
It can't the temperature, because I installed iStats and they show the hottest part is GPU, but it is only 51 degrees C (123.8 fahrenheit) during hours of heavy use. Also back in leopard I tried out a fan control app and set all fans to max RPM (which was really loud), and that didn't affect the random polygons.
I don't know why it happens only in Leopard but I am not going to update back to it till I know for sure that this has been fixed.
PS. The only system level 3rd party app I had installed in Leopard when the problem first occurred was Steer mouse, but I doubt a mouse driver can cause this kind of a problem. Besides I have it always installed in Tiger too. This is why I outclose the possibility of 3rd party apps being the cause.

Firefox 4 appears to be causing my graphics card to stop responding for no reason, since upgrading to 4.0.

I'm not sure if its a common occurance for other users, but since the 'hardware accelerated support' with Firefox 4 release, firefox seems to regularly cause my graphics card (Nvidea GT320M) on my laptop to 'stop responding' for a few seconds every so often, usually when I have flash websites such as youtube open. It isn't a huge deal since it restarts working again after a few seconds of a black screen, but its annoying non-the-less.
An example of such: earlier today i started up firefox 4, and when it was loading the tabs, the screen turned black, and when the screen came back on, pop up in the windows task bar told me that the graphics card had stoped responding but successfully recovered. Not the first time, but becoming a more regular occurrence.

You seem to be running older versions of Flash and Java plugins. I'd recommend you update to the latest versions first of all to see whether the problem persists or not.
The easiest way to check is to go to the [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ Plugins Check] page.
If that fails to solve the problem, try running Firefox in [[Safe Mode]]. If it works correctly in that configuration, then one of your add-ons is the culprit.

Windows 8.1 Update Causes Lost Brightness Settings / Screen is Dim

I updated from Windows 8 to 8.1 and the next day my screen went dim and I could not adjust it neither with the keyboard +/-, nor with the onscreen graphics dashboard, nor within the power settings.
How do you fix it?

Sometimes Windows updates will break your graphics driver. That is because Intel and NVidia do not update their graphics drivers on the same schedule that Microsoft
updates Windows, and sometimes the updates are incompatible and cause the graphics driver to do wonky things. In my case that came in the form of lost brightness settings.
I searched these forums for a fix and I could not find one, so now that I know the answer, I am sharing it here.
How do you fix it? You have to reinstall the graphics driver. This is how I did it.
I found the graphics driver install file that was already on my computer and I ran it. It reinstalled the driver in about 5 seconds and my screen brightness functionality was restored.
Where is my graphics driver install file? On my computer it is here:
D:driversVGAIntelx649.17.10.2932\Setup.exe
Yours is probably in a different but similar location depending on how it was installed and what brand it is, etc. I have a Lenovo
P400 touchscreen laptop with an Intel HD 4000 Graphics.

Mavericks 10.9.1 and graphics corruption with mac pro early 2009

Mavericks 10.9.1 is causing graphics corruption with my mac pro early 2009.
ATI Radeon 4870 quit working altogether. Replaced with ATI Radeon 5870 and having different and weird graphics corruption issues.
Turned off screensaver because once I got all pink screen with occasional snowflakes flickering on screen. That has stopped now but other things still happening.

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Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate | pbcopy
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
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Graphics corrupted / garbled display on Core Duo MacBook Pro (ATI)

My first-generation (Core Duo) MacBook Pro (with ATI chipset) is having video problems.
When this happens, the graphics become corrupted / display becomes garbled and the computer freezes shortly afterwards making it basically unusable. You can just about follow a garbled mouse pointer around, but it is unresponsive.
The only solution is a hard reset (power button for seven seconds).
Has anyone encountered this problem?
At first, I suspected that the computer was overheating as it seemed to occur only after prolonged use - but in the past two days, it could freeze immediately at login screen basically making it completely unusable.
Apple Hardware Test (on original CD) says "No Problems Found", but I still suspect hardware trouble as this only began occuring a week or so after my computer had the left fan replaced (it stopped working after an earlier problem in January at the Apple Store in Highcross Leicester.
I suspect something ELSE is wrong and that it requires service again, so am planning to go to the store in Birmingham on Sunday (which is closer to me -- I went to the Leicester store last time). What should I ask Apple to look at? The graphic corruption occurs even when running right off the Leopard CD, or even on the Apple Hardware Test!

Hi - thanks for your help with the issue. Just as an update, I brought my Mac in for service on the 8th February at the Apple Store Bullring – and oddly, it worked perfectly in the Store. However, I showed them this thread and the pictures they had – and they replaced the logic board and apparently it's one of the costliest parts ever possible to place, shockingly expensive that it's like the cost of a new laptop! However as it's under AppleCare (well, higher education parts and labour warranty) it was covered. Phew!
I got my Mac back today, and so far, it appears to be working perfectly (though as the graphic problems were intermittent, I'm making sure I do backups!), and fingers crossed, I should now have a working Mac once again!
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Graphics Corruption in Some Apps - Problem with Geforce GT750

Hi
I am recently facing a graphics corruption problem with my 2013 MBPr. Yesterday I noticed that the window that shows the mail in Mail.app suddenly showed just some noise (just some strange colors). I restarted the app and it was gone. Then I installed a game named "Tales from the Borderlands". On the menu of the game I noticed the corruption again. Every time I would exit and rerun the game, the distortion would randomly change. Here are some examples:
The problem appeared throughout the game too.
Then I forced "Integrated Only" using a gfxCardStatus to use Intel Iris Pro instead of Geforce GT750. I started the game and the problem was gone. I tried some more times again by switching GPUs and every time I noticed that the problem is with Geforce GT750 and Intel Iris Pro has no problem.
Any ideas what is causing the problem and what should I do? Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi Tormirez,
I can't believe my eyes.. I actually was afraid this might happen.
Since I've been following the 2011 MBP forum after i had my MBP repaired (reflow by someone near Antwerp, Belgium), I've been learning some specific things about the very likely nature of these GPU issues.
All these issues seem to be related to the replacement of leaded solder by nearly pure tin solder + not soldering according to the best profile (temperature vs time).
The factor of time saving = money saving may very well play a role here.
When you consider the nature of that leaded solder problem versus the soldering profiles, it's not hard to imagine that the problem isn't just in the 2011 model range, but may actually have started FROM that range...! I've already heard that some 2012 models also failed in a similar way.
It may all be quite logical; tin solder needs a roughly 60ºC higher temperature to get into full liquid state then leaded solder.
As the cheapest way to produce boards is probably rolling entire boards through ovens, melting the parts on it, it would require very precise monitoring of temperatures UNDER the CPU and GPU, to be SURE you have a full flow going on.
But, at the same time, as you're cooking ALL components around 240ºC, they may have chosen not to stay at this temperature long enough. Or, maybe they stop at 240ºC, while 242ºC might be the minimum required temperature to guarantee full flow.
Etc.. It's a very complicated mix of factors that determines if small or large batches of board could contain errors at all or not.
But it may at least be called "bizarre" that these solder errors are found in tens of thousands 2011 MBPs, but also in 2012 models, and in the PS4 and also other brand Windows PCs!!
If you want to test your GPU hard, download GpuTest OSX x64 0.7.0 from ( geeks3d . com / gputest ) and run the FurMark based stress test on HD resolution for 30-60 mins straight, then turn your machine off completely for 15-30 mins (until it's really cold, put it down on some cold stone floor might help), then repeat several times.
If the same problem would be hidden in there as in the 2011 models, this is the way to get it triggered soon.
If you ask me, this might be the first report of the same problem in the 2013 series.....
Question; do you game a lot? If you answer yes, then it would pretty much make a connection to this similar problem I think!
I'm curious about the results of the stress test!

Safari graphical corruption when scrolling

Safari is showing some strange graphical corruption on an IBM documentation site when I try to scroll. For example, if I scroll down in the upper right-hand frame, it looks like the image below. Slow scrolling causes worse corruption, fast scrolling less:
I see this using the latest Safari (5.1) on a 2011 MBP with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and on two 2009 iMacs with Lion 10.7.0. Switching to another tab and coming back corrects the problem, and sometimes bringing another window in front and then going back to Safari does the same. This suggests that the problem is probably within Safari or OS X rather than in the web page itself.
Does anybody else see this problem? Thanks!

I see what you are talking about.
I tried on one Mac running Lion / Safari 5.1 and on a Mac running Snow Leopard / Safari 5.1. No difference, same graphics glitch.
I tried the site on Firefox and it rendered as it should so I think you are correct in assuming it's a Safari issue not the webpage itself.

Graphical Corruption Help

Hi,
Recently a graphical corruption appeared on my mac. There are little green lines all over the screen. Rebooting does not make it go away however rebooting in Safe Mode does make the problem go away. So it leads me to believe that it is a software issue (probably something that I installed which I cannot seem to remember... :()
Anyways, I was wondering if I could get any advice on how to start troubleshooting this issue? i.e. a list of things that would help me nail down what is causing the problem.
Thanks in advance.

Hi BDAqua,
Sorry for the delay. Last month at work had not given me a chance to look into this issue myself.
I looked at the Safe Mode resolution. It is using the highest resolution available.
I also looked in Login Items and there is only iTunesHelper. also I want to note that the graphical corruption occurs on the login screen as well (i.e. before any user logs in)
I looked in /private/var/run/StartupItems and there is nothing in that directory
I looked in /Library/StartupItems and moved everything out of that directory and the problem still occurs
I looked in /System/Library/StartupItems and have the following, but I am afraid to move any of it without knowing the consequences of moving them. It lists the followig:
Apache
AuthServer
FibreChannel
Metadata
NetworkTime
SNMP
AppServices
CrashReporter
IFCStart
NFS
PrintingServices
AppleShare
Disks
IPServices
NIS
RemoteDesktopAgent
Any further assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Nvidia 7300/7600gt desktop users with Aperture graphic corruption read:

Not promising anything, but consider installing the January 19, 2010 "Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 (iMac and Mac Pro) compatibility with Windows 7" then perform a restart as per the installer. Then restart while resetting PRAM (I have done this numerous times before this update, so don't even think of suggesting this was the fix) and then shut down for good measure and reboot again....what the ****....
EXPLANATION:
I have a new HD, new RAM, new clean Aperture and OS install. I have been trying to determine the source of my woes for months. I also performed a complete check of the innards of my machine (checking voltages, yanking mother boards and GPU board for visual inspections, capacitor failures, connections, traces, etc......all to prove everything looked great with little dust) But I still had issues.
For kicks, even though I am not running WIndows 7 or BootCamp (I use VMWare for XP Pro) I updated the graphics firmware in my computer. It says: "Download and install the Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 IF YOU RUN WINDOWS 7 using Boot Camp on your iMac (with NVIDIA GeForce 7300 or 7600 GT) or Mac Pro (with NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT or Quadro FX 4500) computer." (Capital emphasis mine) Furthermore, some descriptions I have seen for this refer to "early 2008" models...clearly not mine...though Apple, to my knowledge, never made iMacs in 2008 with a 7300/7600 GT card. They were produced in 2006 and early 07.
I originally assumed this update was not required or recommended for those of us NOT using WIndows 7 (and perhaps this assumption is correct, technically). Well, I did the update, and since performing this update...I am nervous to even suggest this....I see the graphic corruption has not occurred while making adjustments. I have even used screen sharing with Aperture in full screen mode with success....crazy, I know.
This is...so far...a miracle. It also proves in my twisted dementia and euphoria, that it was NOT (here comes the jinx) hardware failure related, but rather a driver or firmware issue. (of course you will see a follow up about how this was an awful idea plagued with problems and no fix for Aperture....but be patient, all good drama needs time)
Let me be clear, the update never popped up via software update and the update itself says it is for windows 7 boot camp users of which I am NOT...
The ROM Revision # has changed in "About This Mac" TO 3467 FROM 3021. I cannot necessarily suggest this was a fix (I have done nothing else, however, to my computer since), but it seems to have worked so far. I have no idea how to roll back this firmware if you should try this, not succeed and suffer problems. But for the risk-takers (not sure how risky this is for the described users) it's worth a shot. Post your experience via this thread, just to confirm if I am imagining this....
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Clem wrote:
Does it still crash if you change your directory that you are exporting to, but leave it in icon mode?
Yes. I just checked, and the 2nd try it crashed when in icon mode to another than the usual directory. Usually I export to the Desktop, now I exported to the home-dir.
Are there other images or pdfs of interesting items in the directory?
My Desktop is usually empty. I tried again exporting random images one by one removing each exported image in between, and after around six times it crashed. So I would say: No.
Do the icon size or text settings have an effect on if you crash or not?
I have tried with 2 sizes 64x64 and 128x128 with the same result: Crash. So I would say No, but I haven't tried all icon sizes.

Nokia E6 update caused bsod.

The phone worked fine the 4 hours I got to own this product including use with the nokia suite until it told me about "an important update" for my phone.
This update caused a bluescreen that bricked it, and now I have no phone.
The only software running besides it was skype and this has never happened to my PC before and will probably never happen again. I am running windows 7 64bit, and its a work pc. Searching this forum I see that this is apparently a problem.
I won this phone in a competition and have no paper of purchase for warranty.
Thanks nokia. <3
Solved!
Go to Solution.

blue screens of death are not caused by Nokia programs, i never had such an issue.
bad or outdated graphics card drivers, low memory or even problems with the hard disk, can cause them.
it depends on how big is the damage, if they can fix just by reinstalling the firmware, then a reinstallation is all your device might get.
in case an internal component is damaged (highly unlikely) and it's too expensive then you might get a new device.
anyway i don't think they will disassemble a device to fix another.
Greece Nokia X6 RM-559 v40.0.002

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