flickering

I have a HP MINI netbook, and earlier (admittedly while watching TV, and paying very little attention) tried putting headphones in and managed to miss and put them in the USB port. The screen flickered and is now a mint green, and it won't switch off fully, and the screen stays green whenever i...

I have these strange colored (mostly white but some are a darker blue) boxes that will come and go randomly. It's far worse when I first start my computer and they become more scarce as the computer warms up. Running Radeon HD6950 card that's not overclocked and just installed brand new driv...

After I turn my computer on, the screen will flash green and black until it gets pass all of the booting and has windows log in loaded. I recently clean installed Windows 7 and reinstalled my graphics drivers. i7-2600k Processor Asus P8Z68-V LX Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Dual Graphics 8GB Ram

So I'm new to the forum, and I was hoping you guys can help me with a problem I have with one of my laptops. So the laptop I'm having trouble with is the one I use for fiction writting and I'm worried that if I dont get help or find out what's happening all my work will get deleted. So the...

When I try to rename a file, I right click on the current filename then left click on "rename" . But it doesn't give me enough time to go to the filename to change it. This doesn't happen all the time, but enough times to really frustrate me. At the same time, I notice that the open windows...

Hi all, Here is a question that I posted on the MS-TechNet, but I thought I should post it here too, to get wider audience. Any help/suggestion that you can provide will be greatly useful. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Update 0 : Turning notifications...

Yesterday, I noticed my taskbar acting strange. I was using Firefox at the time, and my taskbar would just start blinking rapidly. Right now as I type, my screen is blinking, my taskbar is flickering rapidly, and the icons on my taskbar are enlarging quickly. This happens when I am not in...

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This problem has been persistent and has made many of my games unplayable. Some games like Worms, City of Heroes, and BIT.TRIP RUNNER flicker on my laptop, but it can also run more graphics heavy games like Battlefield 2 or Half Life 2. Adjusting resolution and vsync does nothing and my graphics...

Link RemovedLink Removed Ok at the top i posted what I am talking about. Anyways my computer is only about 8-9 months old. When I first got my computer I had Win 7 pre-installed and everything was working fine. But after about 4 months I wiped Windows and installed Ubuntu Linux (I'm a big...

Hi all- I've been having some trouble with my external display lately. For some reason, my PC has a reliance upon it to display Aero themes - when it is removed, Windows Basic comes into play. When it is reattached, the screen (on my PC) flickers and Aero returns. Any idea what could be causing...

I have tried to make sense of what others have posted and relate it to my situation but I am still somewhat confused because I have not found the same exact issue I have. I have tried a number of config settings but no joy. I am running W7 Ult 64bit OS and have a Nvidia Quadro NVS 285...

This wasn't happening to me when I was on vista. It mostly happens in Lightwave 9.6 and Photoshop CS2. So the problem is that when I open a drop down menu in those programs the program either flickers a lot or it goes in the background and I have to alt+tab to get it back every time. It is...

Hello, This morning one of our computers started acting strangely. Any window screens we have open, whether an Internet Explorer window, My Computer screen, etc, the top bars are flashing in and out. It is similar to the flashing like when it is trying to alert you of an error message / box you...

my new computer build is been plagued with problems first hard drive now i dont know it loads up fine then after about 10 mins just cuts off ive watched the cpu temp and it stays at 40c which aint that hot the cut off make the screen flicker then boom no power any ideas?

Hey Guys, May just be a stupid problem but is rather agravating. Just installed win 7 on my PC upgraded from Vista. Vista ran pretty good but was slow and tempermental every once in a while. After fighting back and forth to get all my drivers, bluetooth keyboard working and such I just...

Hello. Whenever I'm running anything that uses Direct3D such as World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, or Borderlands, after some time (anywhere from 1 to 30 minutes) I'll get a screen flicker and a TDR alert from Windows 7 (the driver nvlddmkm.sys has crashed but Windows recovered it) and the game...

I recently just got a new Dell Latitude e5410 laptop with i5 core processor, 8gb ram and Windows 7 on it. It went into standby (or hibernate? not sure if there is a difference between standby and hibernate) mode and I left it sitting there plugged in for a long time. Later when I came back I...

Was having minor issues with my laptop - Sony Vaio, just a little over a year old, no histry of problems...the screen would flicker sometimes when left idle for a few minutes. Then on startup screen would be completely black... This started a little over a week ago. Also a week ago started...

Hi all Windows 7 was great when I first installed it, but now I cant use it at all, due to the huge flickering problem, firefox keeps going into "not responding" for a couple of seconds every time I click on some thing, and the same to many of the apps I use like Illustrator, its now so bad, I...