I'm beginning to think a Toshiba was a bad idea

[onefixedstar]

Does anyone have any idea what might cause red dots to pop up all over my screen? It started with random red dots, and then vertical lines of red dots, and now I've got horizontal lines too. It's starting to make it very hard to read the screen. They mostly show up on white backgrounds, and mostly in browsers, but I do get them on other colours and in other programs. Haven't seen any on my wallpaper yet, though. Googling turned up one quick reference to the possibility that my video card is broken. Other than that, nada. Anyone have any thoughts before I haul it back to the repair shop and lock myself in my bedroom with my desktop?

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[mnemosyne9.livejournal.com]

Probably video card. My Gateway laptop slowly developed those problems and never really recovered, even after repairs by the manufacturer. If you hook up an external monitor, does the problem cease? If so, it's the same problem I was having, I think.