Snow Leopard Graphics Corruption

At least, my solution works on at 3 computers. anybody has the corruption could try

I'm having the exact same problem and it's been happening since the 10.6.2 update.

How can I downgrade to 10.6.1 to see if it helps??

Thank goodness. I thought I was the only one having this issue.

I'm using 10.6.2 on Snow Leopard.

Get corrupted display about once or twice a week. I usually get a bizarre multi-coloured reflection on the dock, then find that things which should be transparent/shadowed show either black or random RGB noise.
I assume there is a bug in the new driver in SL...

4GB Ram
Santa Rosa Macbook X3100 graphics

You could try to uninstall flash player to see whether the corruption still occurs

Haven't called them but I've filed a bug on ADC.
It's number 7503003.

Same exact problem on my MacBook. Happens very often after playing a movie with either Movist or VLC. This appears to be a VERY, VERY similar bug that was fixed in 10.4.7 years ago and appears to be caused when the system get's RAM-strapped and pages to disk. I guess this only affects MacBooks with integrated displays?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=394694&start=135&tstart=0

MacBook3,1 here with Santa Rosa graphics chipset and I constantly encounter this problem on Snow Leopard.

Hi everyone, same problem here, I upgraded to 10.6.2 and everything was working perfect and suddenly last week some "shadows" started to behave strange randomly, when it happens it gets fixed for a while if I close the computer (sleep) and I open it again, I am agree with yachtandsea it seems to be related to a strapped RAM.

So if anyone know why is this happening...

jordi

Hi! Well, since the last security update, (Version: 2010-001; 19-01-2010;ID: DL994; 22,4 MB) it is not happening to me, but still without no idea if it is related or not...

jordi

Wow, I'm so happy to finally find a thread dealing with this. I was going crazy thinking this is only happening to me and that my graphics card's on the fritz. I upgraded my RAM to 4 gigs and I believe it is happening less frequently now, but the problem still exists.

So annoying. I really hope it is solved in 10.6.3.

yep, same problem for me too, macbook 3.1 santarose.
Hope Apple will solved this problem in next update.

Don't think it is totally solved in 10.6.3.

I've been on 10.6.3 since it's release and it hasn't fixed itself for me either. It's strange, I was on 10.6.2 for a while and no problems. My HDD died, got my replacement and clean installed SL back on (from the retail disk) and that's when I noticed the issues. Strange because I clean installed SL back when it was first released as well.

I'm bringing it into the Genius Bar tomorrow, gonna have em run some diagnostics to make sure its not indicative of a failing logic board but we'll see.