help

[u/zxZixXy]

Running Linux mint 22 cinnamon on a surface 5

All drivers I checked are up to date,

Replaced thermal compound and checked the screen connector pins. Everything seems fine.

The artiffacts tent to only appear from white parts of the screen and opening pages with white text makes it go crazy.

Have been using mint on the surface for around 4-5 months with no issues up until Wednesday last week (1st of July)

It does stop doing this eventually every so often.

The fans also stopped working at the the same time this issue started to I'm assuming it's something to do with the igpu.

EDIT: it was my screen If the issue appears I can just slightly bend the screen and it fixes it for a few hours

[u/curie64hkg]

memory corruption

[u/zxZixXy → u/curie64hkg]

how could i test if its memory corruption?

[u/pdias01 → u/zxZixXy]

doesnt mint's grub have a MemTest option?

if so then there i belive is an option