This has happened 3 times in the past 2 days, any advice? It goes away after reboots but always comes back.

Update: So it could be GPU death, how exciting, especially for a 1.5 year old laptop. As of now it hasn’t terribly affected my workflow, but if this persists even after future kernel/driver updates, it may be rip. I am still hopeful that it could be software related, but time will tell!

This one is a little more interesting

Update 2: I was using Windows for testing purposes, and it happened again! This was immediately after picking the laptop up, so it is definitely hardware related. This time it made a horrible noise as well, answering some of the questions. So somehow by picking the device up, maybe the internals are slightly bent, causing the issues?

  • @foggyEnglish
    31•5 days ago

    GPU.

    Update or rollback drivers and see if it stops.

      • @[email protected]English
        26•5 days ago

        To me, it looks like defective vram. The cursor is rendered at a different physical memory location, which may still be intact.

        ETA: the cursor being intact is actually very important- that quite effectively rules out the screen itself (LCD panel), since they wouldn’t care if it’s the cursor.

      • EbbyEnglish
        9•5 days ago

        GPU ram could behave like this.

        A chunk of dying ram would affect sections of code allowing proper rendering of cursers over garbled backgrounds.

        Also, a restart could reset the ram for a while bringing it back from the dead.