Blue Sky Limousine

I bought a computer on ebay, and it came with an AMD cpu that has the JPEG Display Problem some folks have encountered over the years. The processor is fine otherwise.

I was using it the other day to test some things out, and I noticed that the image problem varies between browsers. In Internet Explorer, the JPEGs are all messed up. Real fun when a captcha randomly shows up for sending email or buying something. Firefox doesn’t seem to have the problem. It shows the same images just fine. Both IE and FF seem to have a problem with videos, though. YouTube videos looked really bad with the JPEG glitch. But not in Opera! Opera showed images fine, and videos were only a little glitchy. The results were tolerable, especially considering how bad videos looked in the other two browsers.

So, if you’ve got one of those faulty chips, it would seem you can get by as far as surfing is concerned by using Firefox or Opera whenever the images you can/can’t see are crucial.