Hello!
Ever since I got my MSI R4870-T2D512 OC Radeon HD 4870 512 MB video card (starting with Catalyst driver v8.12 and using v9.2 today [haven't tried v9.3 yet]) and other major computer hardware upgrades in the end of December 2008, I noticed once in a while and rarely randomly, my mouse cursor gets corrupted. Instead of an arrow, it looks like a vertical patterned (e.g., eight left right black triangles in a vertical thick line). Moving the cursor to parts of my screen to change icon does show other weird vertical patterned and sometimes animated bars (e.g., placed over a resizing window area). I tried going back to the default Windows XP Pro. SP3's cursors through its control panel's mouse options, but the cursors vanished so I had to use my keyboard to change them to something else to get something.
Most of the times, this problem goes away by itself by doing stuff in Windows or from rebooting but not today (first time). I think the corrupted mouse cursor came up overnight as I was asleep, then I have not seen the corrupted cursors go away since then (seven hours). I might have to reboot to fix it.
I tried to take screen captures of it, including the corrupted mouse cursors, with IrfanView but the cursors come up fine! Now, that is weird. I also tried using DVI and VGA connections, and made no differences. I don't have a digital camera (will borrow one if needed later on) to screen capture and upload.
Does anyone have any ideas on why this is happening? My detailed computer specifications can be found here: http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/computers.txt (primary/Windows machine). Thank you in advance.
Ever since I got my MSI R4870-T2D512 OC Radeon HD 4870 512 MB video card (starting with Catalyst driver v8.12 and using v9.2 today [haven't tried v9.3 yet]) and other major computer hardware upgrades in the end of December 2008, I noticed once in a while and rarely randomly, my mouse cursor gets corrupted. Instead of an arrow, it looks like a vertical patterned (e.g., eight left right black triangles in a vertical thick line). Moving the cursor to parts of my screen to change icon does show other weird vertical patterned and sometimes animated bars (e.g., placed over a resizing window area). I tried going back to the default Windows XP Pro. SP3's cursors through its control panel's mouse options, but the cursors vanished so I had to use my keyboard to change them to something else to get something.
Most of the times, this problem goes away by itself by doing stuff in Windows or from rebooting but not today (first time). I think the corrupted mouse cursor came up overnight as I was asleep, then I have not seen the corrupted cursors go away since then (seven hours). I might have to reboot to fix it.
I tried to take screen captures of it, including the corrupted mouse cursors, with IrfanView but the cursors come up fine! Now, that is weird. I also tried using DVI and VGA connections, and made no differences. I don't have a digital camera (will borrow one if needed later on) to screen capture and upload.
Does anyone have any ideas on why this is happening? My detailed computer specifications can be found here: http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/computers.txt (primary/Windows machine). Thank you in advance.
