Hey all,

I have been getting these weird patches of distortion on my screen often. They go away most of the time when I do anything to change/refresh that area of the screen. For example if I mouse over it could go away. Does anyone know what this is and how I can stop it?

Thanks for taking a look. Here is the relevant information of my machine:









Looks to me LIKE the graphics adapter may be failing and/or overheating. Since it is an Alienware I expect it probably uses a dedicated Radeon or Geforce card. You may want to try to CLEAN out any vents with compressed air. It may also be worth updating your graphics DRIVERS, just to eliminate that as a possible cause.

I believe that model of Alienware may have two graphics adapters- a Radeon or Geforce card, and the built-in Intel. Another idea may be to try to disable the Radeon/Geforce dedicated graphics, and see if the PROBLEM GOES away if so then it would see the issue is with the dedicated.Great, I'll give those things a try and report back.
I tried these things and they did not help.In that case, it sounds like the Graphics adapter probably failed.