[Son_of_Thunder]

Hey guys, I've had my acer aspire 1681wlmi for a couple of years now, and yesterday it started to artifact horribly. Full screen corruption. If I take a screenshot there's corruption in the screenshot, so I know it's not just my monitor.

Now here is the weird part, when I plug in an analog monitor it doesn't artifact. Even if I'm running in dual monitor mode, no artifacting. I unplug the analog monitor and almost instantly it artifacts. Hook it back in and the artifacts go away.

Also, if I wiggle the built in monitor it sometimes goes away.

Finally, no matter what I set my clock speeds at, the artifacting doesn't go away.

Some relevent info, my CPU fan does not come on in Windows anymore. It runs high at POST, then doesn't come back on. It comes on as required in FC5. I took the pc apart yesterday and applied new AS5 to the CPU. The computer can run anywhere from 5 minutes to 15 minutes before the artifacts show up, after that they exist in windows, linux, and everything in between (post, grub etc).

This problem has both my room mate and I stumped, we have no idea how to fix this. Please help!

EDIT

I found that if I punched right below the keyboard that they artifacts would go away. That's in the general area of the CPU and video adapter. Even though I tore it apart yesterday I decided to open it back up and tighten down all the screws in that area. Yesterday I didn't really tighten them too well because I figured I may have to take it apart again. Some of the screws were looser than others, I got a full turn out of one of them, and it happened to be one I didn't take out yesterday.

I've been running for nearly an hour now and no sign of artifacts.

EDIT

So yeah...not fixed.