Hey all,
I encountered something quite worrying today. I noticed that whenever I put my PC into Sleep Mode and waking it up afterwards, green squares would pop up on my Picture Password that I use to unlock my PC. These green squares ONLY pop up on the Picture Password and ONLY when waking up my PC from Sleep mode (see picture below). There are no squares on the picture password after a reboot. Browsing through pictures or gaming doesn't give these squares either.
I tried to change the picture password and I noticed that they also appear on others EXCEPT for black pictures.
Clicking on the green squares makes them disappear. I didn't install anything recently except for the Update 1 of Windows 8.1 although that was 4 days ago.
My specs: Windows 8.1 Pro Update 1 x64 with Media Centre, EVGA nVidia GTX 660Ti (not overclocked) with 334.89 WHQL driver, i5-3570K stock speed, 8 GB RAM and 1 TB Harddisk.
What are your thoughts about this guys? Could it really be my GPU giving up despite the problem being so limited to the Picture Password after sleep mode?? My PC is 1,5 years old.
Hope to hear some relieving answers and a possible solution for this..
Update: Just installed the 335.23 WHQL drivers but the problem is still there.
I encountered something quite worrying today. I noticed that whenever I put my PC into Sleep Mode and waking it up afterwards, green squares would pop up on my Picture Password that I use to unlock my PC. These green squares ONLY pop up on the Picture Password and ONLY when waking up my PC from Sleep mode (see picture below). There are no squares on the picture password after a reboot. Browsing through pictures or gaming doesn't give these squares either.
I tried to change the picture password and I noticed that they also appear on others EXCEPT for black pictures.
Clicking on the green squares makes them disappear. I didn't install anything recently except for the Update 1 of Windows 8.1 although that was 4 days ago.
My specs: Windows 8.1 Pro Update 1 x64 with Media Centre, EVGA nVidia GTX 660Ti (not overclocked) with 334.89 WHQL driver, i5-3570K stock speed, 8 GB RAM and 1 TB Harddisk.
What are your thoughts about this guys? Could it really be my GPU giving up despite the problem being so limited to the Picture Password after sleep mode?? My PC is 1,5 years old.
Hope to hear some relieving answers and a possible solution for this..
Update: Just installed the 335.23 WHQL drivers but the problem is still there.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 (Update 1) Pro 64 bit
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- Intel i5 3570K
- Motherboard
- Asrock Pro4 Z77
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Geforce GTX 660Ti
- Hard Drives
- Hitachi HDS921010DLE630