I'm seeing sporadic blinking colors on my computer. For example, along the title bar of my browser, and at the bottom bar, I'll see like spots sometimes, or long lines, which appear to be RGB colors. Sometimes if I run my mouse over it they disappear. Other times they stay. It's not just in the browser either, as I see it even on the desktop. If I right click on the desktop sometimes, the shell menu that pops up with the choices, sometimes real quick the colors will blink inside of there too. It seems like the longer the computer goes without being rebooted the worse it gets. When I get up in the AM, the colors are at the top and bottom and are annoying and won't go away. But a quick reboot and all is back to normal.
If it were bad hardware, or heat related, a reboot shouldn't fix anything. Hardware issues are very rarely fixed by reboots or software. If it was a card going bad, or defective, then why would the issue go away with a quick reboot? The heat stays the same and it's back and running in about 2-3 minutes tops.
So now I think driver related. If it's back and better after a reboot, maybe it's a driver. Well, I updated and still the same. I tried rolling back and still the same. I just can't seem to shake it.
Thus far, my opinion? The perfect storm! I think the video driver is butting heads with something else, like maybe Java or Flash - both of which I've tried updating and rolling back. Right now, things are all up to date. This issue never existed until about a month or 2 ago, then it's come and gone since. But always temporarily fixed with a reboot, but always coming back in some fashion. I am going to try and get a screenshot today, or maybe even a quick movie clip, to show what it is I am seeing.
I am running Windows 7 Premium 64 bit and this is an AMD Radeon HD 5700 card, now running with the latest drivers.