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    Re: white dot on desktop?
    « Reply #30 on: October 27, 2009, 11:16:35 AM »
    The dot has NOTHING AT ALL to do with the monitor. It is present in the video memory. This is proved by the fact that a screen dump shows it. It is either a software (e.g. driver, desktop background setting) or hardware (display card or chipset) issue.

    well its driving me nuts that i cant seem to fix it, and im a IT guy ;( makes me wanna throw in the towel. there has to be something we are missing here to get this dot to remove itself...

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    Re: white dot on desktop?
    « Reply #31 on: October 27, 2009, 12:25:05 PM »
    Could be a hardware fault. No amount of altering settings or changing drivers will fix that.

    I presume that it shows up in Safe Mode?


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      « Reply #32 on: October 27, 2009, 02:09:42 PM »
      Could be a hardware fault. No amount of altering settings or changing drivers will fix that.

      I presume that it shows up in Safe Mode?



      thanks for idea. the dot did not show up in safe mod.

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      Re: white dot on desktop?
      « Reply #33 on: October 27, 2009, 02:32:05 PM »
      That is a possible pointer. In safe mode, no 3rd party (Video card maker) video drivers are loaded, only Windows generic driver. So maybe the video hardware driver is causing the problem, or possibly in normal mode the card is being run in a way that reveals a hardware problem.

      I don't see any answer from you about display settings. Have you tried to disable some or all of the performance features like hardware acceleration?

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      Re: white dot on desktop?
      « Reply #34 on: October 27, 2009, 06:03:38 PM »
      OK, Thar's it!
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        Re: white dot on desktop?
        « Reply #35 on: October 28, 2009, 10:47:54 AM »
        so for a update to this. the dot is gone....ill explain what i did...

        i started to play with the themes in win7. i first started to cycle through them all changing the colors of the bg and the pictures that win7 has and kept seeing the dot remain...

        then i went to the windows themes webpage and checked out their themes, and downloaded the avatar theme, and when i activated that theme, the dot was still there. i cycled through the pictures and the dot was still there....

        then i looked around the windows theme settings areas under personalize, and i saw the classic windows theme option. when i clicked that, the dot went away. i changed the background to black, click show desktop 2 times, and the dot isnt there....

        so i put the theme back to win7 default, and the dot isnt there still. i restarted, still gone.

        so something somewhere in the themes between win7 and classic windows got the dot to fix itself....

        i hope this is a problem solved!

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          « Reply #36 on: October 28, 2009, 10:50:47 AM »
          i spoke too soon!!! when i was done typing the last reply, and i closed IE, the dot was sitting there looking at me lol...and thats under win7 theme. i changed it to classic windows theme and the dot went away....

          so porbably this issue is something to do with how the windows 7 themes load? this part of the theme world i know nada about too....so no clue where to look for these config's as to theme loading and styles

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          Re: white dot on desktop?
          « Reply #37 on: October 28, 2009, 11:22:37 AM »
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          Re: white dot on desktop?
          « Reply #38 on: October 28, 2009, 11:30:40 AM »
          Just wondering....have you tried to reseat the video card?

          Just wondering if you a small pc of drity on a contact.


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            « Reply #39 on: October 28, 2009, 12:10:31 PM »
            Just wondering....have you tried to reseat the video card?

            Just wondering if you a small pc of drity on a contact.


            what??

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              Re: white dot on desktop?
              « Reply #40 on: October 29, 2009, 12:57:20 AM »
              did a restart and the white dot showed itself....went to the personalize settings and clicked on windows classic theme, and it went byebye...so annoyed with this.

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                Re: white dot on desktop?
                « Reply #41 on: October 30, 2009, 07:04:15 AM »
                Hi All

                You Can Also pick the Destop image , open it in PAINT and paint it for another color.

                Then save and check if is still there.
                Hope that Helps.

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                  « Reply #42 on: October 30, 2009, 09:15:52 AM »
                  Hi All

                  You Can Also pick the Destop image , open it in PAINT and paint it for another color.

                  Then save and check if is still there.
                  Hope that Helps.

                  did that. didnt work.

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                  Re: white dot on desktop?
                  « Reply #43 on: November 16, 2009, 03:18:52 AM »
                  I have a similar problem!  White dot on top left corner.
                  http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=122104&enterthread=y
                  sys: WIN7, ATI RADEON HD 4730, BENQ G2020HDA, Phenom X3, AMD770.
                  « Last Edit: November 16, 2009, 04:15:14 AM by juxta »

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                    Re: white dot on desktop?
                    « Reply #44 on: November 28, 2009, 10:16:59 PM »
                    wow finally someone with the same issue!

                    im still having the issue also, comes and goes...