New windows and menus sometimes turn black

I know how this sounds, but bear with me.
Sometimes, out of nowhere, application and context menus start to appear black (or glitchy and grey), new windows open up as black and if I resize applications that are already opened they turn black as well.
GNOME menus (logout etc.), the shell etc. don't seem to be affected by this. If I try to restart X with a quick alt+F2 'r' I get a "Oops" error and my only option remains rebooting.
I've been experiencing this issue for the past 4 months and while at first I could manage as it was happening relatively rarely lately it's becoming quite frustrating. I'm also more keen to get to the bottom of this.
I don't really know where to start trouble-shooting. At first I thought it was flashplugin but uninstalling it was to no good. Firefox perhaps? some people seem to have had similar issue with hardware acceleration on, I disabled it but no improvement was shown. I cannot seem to figure out exactly when this happens. I've noticed it's more likely when loading big chunks on Ajax\Jquery (e.g. Facebook, Twitter infinte picture pages).
EDIT: when I mean black, I mean everythink is black. It's just a black rectangle, you cannot read anything even though it still responds to command (starting to memorize...)
Any help is welcome.
Thank you!
Last edited by sphaso (2013-07-15 19:11:06)

I used the 'sna' fix as shown in this wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics
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To use the new SNA method, create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf with the following content:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "sna"
EndSection
I was also getting lots of the 'mei' errors which one cannot blacklist with the 3.10 kernel.
I found this on the KDE website
A fix to stop mei module
As root run the find command below and pick up the pci device number ( in this case 0000.00.03.0 )
# find /sys/bus/pci/drivers/mei_me/ -type l|sed 's#^.*/##'
Using that number run the following command
# echo 0000:00:03.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/mei_me/unbind
If you run the find command again you will note that the pci dev number is now gone and dmesg -e shows 'stop' alongside the mei error.
I put the above in a script and run it as root after the system powers up.
I am unsure if it is part of the screen problem but it stops the log filling up.
The 'sna' fix seems to be the fix at the moment as it has not occurred for 2 days now.

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