Seth Paxton
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Being a EE who worked at Compaq for a few years, I'd say I know what I'm doing, but this glitch is really making me nuts.
Bascially it appears that one or two colors on the Windows palette are not being displayed correctly, instead of being a light whitish/blue I'm getting flickering yellow.
It's limited to a small range of color, perhaps even just 1 or 2 actual colors.
Even if I sample the color in Paint Shop Pro it shows up flickering there too as well as if I then paint with it. Even using the color chooser in PSP you still see it, but again only on a certain section of color(s).
Flipping the color depth affects it, but no mode makes it go away.
I've considered a virus, but Symmantic searches aren't helpful so far. The item I most suspect is a patch update for Age of Mythology (to 1.09). I uninstalled AoM but it didn't fix it.
As I said, only a few key colors show this, many photos, web pages, whatever, appear normal.
I've considered trying to refresh the vid card driver (GeForce 2 MX), heck, I've even considered a full on WIN 2000 reinstall (motherboard non-compat. with XP BTW, so no go there).
Has anyone had this problem? Anyone know of a virus or Trojan that leaves this mark? Maybe some AoM players ran into the problem? (BTW, searching at Ensemble and MS has returned no good results so far)
Bascially it appears that one or two colors on the Windows palette are not being displayed correctly, instead of being a light whitish/blue I'm getting flickering yellow.
It's limited to a small range of color, perhaps even just 1 or 2 actual colors.
Even if I sample the color in Paint Shop Pro it shows up flickering there too as well as if I then paint with it. Even using the color chooser in PSP you still see it, but again only on a certain section of color(s).
Flipping the color depth affects it, but no mode makes it go away.
I've considered a virus, but Symmantic searches aren't helpful so far. The item I most suspect is a patch update for Age of Mythology (to 1.09). I uninstalled AoM but it didn't fix it.
As I said, only a few key colors show this, many photos, web pages, whatever, appear normal.
I've considered trying to refresh the vid card driver (GeForce 2 MX), heck, I've even considered a full on WIN 2000 reinstall (motherboard non-compat. with XP BTW, so no go there).
Has anyone had this problem? Anyone know of a virus or Trojan that leaves this mark? Maybe some AoM players ran into the problem? (BTW, searching at Ensemble and MS has returned no good results so far)