Test for Artifacts

AvonBarksdale · 07-15-2015, 09:05 AM

Hello, I'm having some weird behaviour in the UI. I experienced a weird graphical glitch in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and now in Elementary I'm seeing like artifacts when showing all applications.
How can I thorougly test for artifacts in my system ? In a month my 3 year guarantee is going to run out, so I want to be very thorough with my tests before that happens.

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3.16.0-34-generic
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:42 memory:f7800000-f7bfffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.

Thanks.

yooy · 07-15-2015, 05:47 PM

Should run distributed computing project for several day preferably Folding@home.

AvonBarksdale · 07-31-2015, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by yooy

Should run distributed computing project for several day preferably Folding@home.

Thanks. I tried for a few hours and it seemed to work fine. Is there any other program ? I remember when using Windows years ago there were programs that would start showing artifacts within seconds if there are problems in the hardware.

ondoho · 08-01-2015, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by AvonBarksdale

How can I thorougly test for artifacts in my system ? In a month my 3 year guarantee is going to run out, so I want to be very thorough with my tests before that happens.

that is, you're assuming these artefacts are hardware related.

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Originally Posted by AvonBarksdale

I remember when using Windows years ago there were programs that would start showing artifacts within seconds if there are problems in the hardware.

then you were either incredibly un/lucky that the hardware problem was right at the beginning of the search, or the windows program kinda cheated on you. many freeware progs will do that.