Snow Leopard Graphics Corruption

It looks like you may need to try to reinstall it again. First, did you do a Leopard->Snow Leopard upgrade? If so, is the original disk that came w/ your Mac the one you used, because that one has hardware specific drivers to your computer model.

I had exactly the same issue on my MacBook, and reinstalling doesn't fix it.. as Leet Sher said. Reinstalling should always be done as a last resort, it is a big job.. I dislike it when people just tell you to reinstall without knowing all the facts.

It's a driver issue, I had serious problems in 10.6 and 10.6.1, but the 10.6.2 upgrade almost entirely fixed the problems. I know this sounds like a silly question, but have you got up to date software? if yes, I would contact Apple. It's their shoddy programming of the driver. X3100 have always seemed to have had awful drivers. Sorry I can't help you anymore than that.

Drivers/kernel extensions are stored in /System/Library/Extensions. I don't know wether Leopard drivers work in Snow Leopard, but if you want to try, do so at your own risk. Extract the following kexts from a leopard install..

AppleIntelGMAX3100.kext
AppleIntelGMAX3100FB.kext
AppleIntelGMAX3100GA.plugin
AppleIntelGMAX3100GLDriver.bundle
AppleIntelGMAX3100VADriver.bundle
AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext

Download a program called kext helper (google it, really easy to find) and install them.

I DO NOT ADVISE THIS, but this is how you would go about installing Leopard drivers. You're risking a non-functioning system, so do so at your own risk.

Hi, I just found you post and I'm having the exact same issue! I will keep you posted if I find anything out. I too have a relatively fresh "Clean Install" as well, so it sounds like we are in the same boat.

same problem with my macbook062
I think apple used the outdated driver for the graphics card

I'm having the same problem too, more frequently now.
I restart / log out and go back in and it goes away, but then comes back after an hour

is it hardware / software issue?

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so annoying

I was getting that problem with iShowU today. Never happened to me before and I've been running snow leopard for a long time.

I doubt this was caused by beta release of the flash player plugin 10.1.51.66.
Just try as the following:
1. uninstall Adobe Flash Player plug-in. http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html
2. install the latest stable released version of Flash player.

Did you try to used the Old drivers or uninstall the flash player?
Have you solved the problem?

I have mac osx 10.6 freshly installed, and only updated to 10.6.1, there is no graphics corruption until now.
So you may try this. maybe it works on your macbook.