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Solve : Black Boxes? What's Happening??

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Hello all,



I have never had this issue before, so I'm completely at a loss of what to do.


As of today, whenever I try to scroll down a page in my browser(when the processor is being heavily used) the entire page goes black. Little glitches like scroll bars appear all over the screen and it slowly sorts itself out, but usually remains partially black until i scroll back up to the top of the page.

Also, when I'm in a menu, everything I scroll over goes either black, or rainbowed. Right=clicking, for example, and going to paste from the top, leaves most of the menu blacked out, like some Soviet censor got his hands on it. Big black boxes, sometimes with rainbow colored single PIXEL lines are what is happening.

Any ideas on how to fix? Started a few hours ago. Ran my anti-Virus and CCleaner but no effect.Sorry for double, here's a screen grab of what's going on.


Note that this is now happening even without my cpu using a ton of power.

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]And again apologies for multiple postings; I'm figuring out as I go along what's wrong. Here are TWO more images. The red boxes are where images OUGHT to be; this is a google image page.


The second picture shows the 'rainbow' effect I spoke of, when a pop-up menu shows data for a file.

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Tell us about your computer. What operating system are you running? What brand & model? what graphics card/chip do you have? The more information the better.
My initial suspicion is that you need to update your graphics driver, but without more details, I can't say for sure.Quote

My initial suspicion is that you need to update your graphics driver, but without more details, I can't say for sure.

I also agree that graphics driver should be updated first with a driver from the maker of the GPU such as AMD if ATI Radeon etc, nVidia if a GeForce GPU, or Intel for INTEL HD etc. Avoid using the default that Microsoft goes with.Let's see:


-Windows 7 Ultimate
-AMD Athlon II X3 450 Processor
-10GB RAM
64-bit

-AMD Radeon R9 200 Series



Erhmm.... anything else you guys need?


I have had zero messages or pop ups saying I need to update, is that normal? It just switched abruptly to this. It also won't let me scroll down internet pages. My first scroll turns the page completely black; only when i select a new tab and then go back does it return to normal, and then it goes to black again if i try to scroll once more.It may sound like a stupid QUESTION but does it do that every time you boot?I honestly haven't tried rebooting the computer.



I have a good 100+ tabs of important information in chrome and mozilla right now and I'm scared to reboot in case they get "forgotten" which is rare but has happened.


Should I reboot?

I used AMD's AUTO detect utility and it said I have all latest drivers installed.Re-booting is sometimes the best thing you can do for a computer.


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