Pull out socket is a good idea, double protection from lightning storm when you not home or asleep. I do that at night before going to sleep or before I go out of the house.

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Dec 31 2008, 03:40 PM

Okay thanks for the advise

So again can the local game stores fix this artifacts problem?

You need to find the cause of the artifacts problem, apparently for me and zainframe the source of the problem was the imitation/third party power brick, and there was nothing to fix- the problem went away when I switched to ori power brick with stepdown (after some furious modding of converter head- somehow my instinct told me it was the third party/imitation brick's fault).