Graphics Card Issue?

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Make sure the graphics card is seated nice and tight. If okay run Apple Hardware Test as this does a graphic card and pixel test sequence.
 
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I'm guessing that's not what your background is supposed to look like? Try putting on a different desktop picture.
 
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That's not his desktop - take a closer look at the pic.
It's a Safari window.
Are all the tabs/windows like that? Any other apps do that?
 
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It happend for a little while and has since stopped. It actually stopped as soon as I posted this thread. And it happened for all windows and applications.
 
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Keep an eye on it. When a graphics card/chip starts to fail you usually see artifacts and shapes everywhere.
 
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Would it be worth going in early? Telling them what has happened? Or do I wait a year for my warranty to expire before it fails. That would be annoying.
 
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Opinions? This is worrying me. It started happening again.
 
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Unless you've been messing with the video.. well, I guess drivers, or kexts, or whatever.. anyway, you have a 50/50 shot of that either being video memory or GPU. Either way, make your way to an apple store post haste.
 

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