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Resolved Question

Graphic Card Failure Symptoms

Oct 8, 2017 10:16AM PDT

When I first start my computer, either cold or awakened from Sleep, I get this "fuzz" that covers the whole screen, just for half a second, intermittently, and then it eventually normalizes.

This also happened once where the "fuzz" stayed on and I had to force a shutdown and restart. I had some audio on at the time, so I know it's not the hard drive, but I want to know if the problem is a symptom from the graphics card or the monitor. It's a GeForce GT 640 graphics card on an HP Pavilion 1320t desktop, running the latest Windows 10.

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Fuzz
Oct 8, 2017 11:20AM PDT

If your cpu has an igp plug your monitor into the mobo and test.

Get another monitor for a test.

One or the other test should help narrow it down.

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Works Now
Oct 26, 2017 5:52PM PDT

Now right out of the blue, it's behaving itself. It's been OK for a week. I suspect it needed updating, but at least it works.

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Forget What I Just Said...
Nov 21, 2017 7:59PM PST

The problem turned out to be Uverse. I had to re-start the box which solved the problem, but for a few seconds, I was getting that fuzz-filled screen. Therefore, I knew it wasn't the video card.