flickering

Hi, Im kind of at my wits end here, ill explain. I have two screens, both Dell, one running natively at 1920x1200 (the primary one) and a second running in vertical at 1050x1680. I generally do most of my gaming on the Main one and keep the MSN/mail/Firefox stuff running on the second, and as...

I am led to believe that i have a problem with the video card or the driver for it ! could the driver be the reason for all the flickering, stuttering and constant refreshing ? for instance, when i go to games in my start panel, and play Solitaire, the game stutters alot and freezes ! constantly...

I have a problem with my display on my Lenovo T61 ! while surfing the net, and a browser already opened, my current browser starts to flicker on/off and reopens new browsers with the same page i'm using ! I know it sounds crazy, but i tried a fresh install to solve the problem (win 7), and the...

pls..i need help..if somebody who have using same GC above, can u give the original backup bios of your...i update my GC bios n then my display flickering....i need to restore back my GC bios :(

My screen randomly flickers sometimes. I don't know if it has to do with the computer getting too hot, the cables messed being messed up, or if the drivers have some sort of problem. I have a lenovo laptop G530 I bought in the Fall. It shipped with windows vista, but I upgraded it to windows...

Recently I installed a program called Advanced System Optimizer. Not a spyware issue or anything like that, it is actually a legitimate program. However it decided to optimize -something- in my system which now causes any game window I open to flicker and jump terribly. If I minimize a window...

Hi We bought a new PC in January, and it's been fine until now. Suddenly last week we started having problems. Every now and then dialog boxes flicker when you try to click on them and you can't select any options. The same happened with the Start menu - the only way to turn the computer off...

Hey guys Basically I'm not a pro with computers,But my Windows 7 is doing something really strange and VERY annoying What its doing is if i Alt tab out of something i can't just click the icon to get back into it,I recently found a way to get back in and that was by pressing...

Hello everyone, Recently my mom gave me a laptop which is an Acer Aspire 5570z and it came with Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. its an older computer but she didn't want it! and well... I did. I noticed the screen brightness flickers a lot and its annoying and also inter fears with my...

Windows 7 dectects primary monitor HF229 correctly with 1680x1050 res. Second monitor is same HF229 but detects it as Generic PNP Monitor with max resolution of 1600x1200. Having flicker problems at lower than 75mhz and 1680x1050 on either monitor. How can I get 2nd monitor to display...

I am a big fan of Windows7, i really enjoy it. However recently i have been getting a weird error. When i scroll of my icons (Let's use internet explorer for example) to choose between my several different open pages, alot of the times the window when scrolled over will disapear before i can...

Ok after four failed installations on four different computers I have finally resolved the problem thanks to a little suggestion that had escape me every single attempt. THANKS AGAIN KEMICAL! So here are the steps to solve the problem: (well, is more a walk around than a solution but hey!) IF...

I have searched this forum and in fact the entire internet trying to get an answer to this problem. Although many have posted video problems mine appears to be unique. When I start up Windows 7 on my 50" Samsung LN52A65 using HDMI there is a lot of noise and slight flicker on the screen...

I installed Windows 7 and it was working fine. However, a few days ago two things happened: 1) Windows installed an update, and the icons at the bottom of the screen began to bring up small windows showing the folder/program, instead of simply just listing their names vertically, and 2)...

ive been getting this wierd refresh thing going on on my desktop recently. its been happening if i open a folder and close it on the desktop, the icons will reload themselves like its refreshing, or if i am on a website, i can see the desktop icons on the title bar of IE right, so i see the icon...

W7 starts up fine then goes to the logon screen. I pick a user and then it plays the logon sound and the desktop pops up. One second later, the screen goes blank and the desktop reappears and everything is fine. You know how when you change your resolution, the screen will sometimes flick...

Hi all, I am running Windows 7/64 with a 8800 GTS and the 196.21 driver on a Samsung P2370 1920x1080 resolution. I am getting very poor video playback. I know it's not a codec issue now. I'll explain why in a bit. The shadows on the videos look like 16 bit. Instead of a smooth transition...

Hello. Recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on my computer. Setup: AMD Phenom II X4 (quad core x64 processor) GeForce 8600 GT gfx card 4 GB DDR3 RAM My problem: If I want to mark files (hold mouse left and drag, you know), the rectangle flickers / blinks. Or if i re-size a...

Coming from XP, I've been really enjoying a lot of Windows 7 new features. One of which is the program Sticky Notes. However, I've got a strange problem, whenever the program gets minimized, it will never un-minimize. Each attempt to click on the icon results in an error/alert sound and...

Hello Guys & Girls, I've registered here because two of my all-time-favorite-games seem to have a problem with the Windows 7. When i start playing Gothic I the game crashes and before the game crashes the screen flickers.The game crashes when i start a new game. People have tried if Gothic...