Screen Flickering When Looking At Dark Pictures/games
Mar 30, 2009
I have noticed that my monitor has wavey type lines moving up and down (almost like interference)...I seem to get it most when the screen is dark or when loading up a game...for example I loaded up Crysis, Grid, R6V2 and all on the intro screens looked like the screen picture was split in half and you could see the join line..I have tried playing around with the res and refresh rates but not having much luck..got a 22" montior and a 8800GTX graphics card - all drivers are up to date.
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Jun 2, 2008
I was on my pc the other day and I was starting up COD2 and just like that, windows went down and I got this blue screen saying windows had been shut down to prevent damage or something. After that the pc rebooted and everything was fine, except for some flickering of the screen sometimes which I knew wasn't good. Yesterday I booted my pc and the same thing happened when I started COD2. Today my pc didn't even boot anymore, right after the IDE screen (black and white) the blue screen popped up showing the same message and the pc shut down. Only safe mode will work. Can this have anything to do with CPU instability or overheating?
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Jun 15, 2008
Both my wife and I have Toshiba Laptops with Vista premium. We both are experiencing the screen minimizing and switching screens on its on. Anyone else have this occuring.
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Jun 25, 2008
So last night my bat-out-of-hell cat jumped on my table and knocked over a glass of red wine. Most of the wine went under my laptop but some amount splashed onto the keyboard and screen. At first, my computer showed no signs of a problem and I have never spilled on a computer ever so I didnt know what to do. About an hour later my screen started flickering on and off (from black to the screen image) it started with just a flicker or two in a couple of minutes to every other second or more. I turned the computer off and took a blow dryer to it for under an hour and then let it dry overnight. In the morning, I turned the computer on and it booted without issue except that the screen resolution changed (as it often does after booting with the screen closed or open) and then the flickering started again. I turned it off and blow dried it again for some time and I will leave it off for at least a week but any ideas/suggestions for what I should do next. Does it seem like something is already fried and I need to contact the manufacturer for a fix? Is there anything else I should do?
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Mar 23, 2008
MS Flight Simulator X with the FS-X-SP1 patch and the Acceleration pack on top running on Vista Ultimate and a eVGA 8800GT-512MB card with the latest official 169.25 Nvidia drivers installed after about 1 hour the entire machine locked up, dark screen total freeze. Had to Hard reset. There is nothing in any of the Vista Event logs to be found.
How is this possible? Suffice to say this machine is absolutely stable hardware-wise .....
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Oct 23, 2008
I have just purchased a new laptop with Windows Vista but I am having problems with the screensaver settings and selecting a different image. For some reason the screensaver switches on every 10 minutes even though I have set 20 mins as the time allowance and the screensaver appears as a blackened screen rather than one of the more deocrative options. I have tried re-setting the time/style several times but nothing seems to be changing ---- it becomes slightly irritating when watching media when the screen darkens every 10 minutes!
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Nov 18, 2009
So whenever I turn on the system, after I run a few light aplications, like Internet Explorer or PC Wizard for example, the screen turns dark for 2 seconds, and the error message: "igfx display driver has stopped responding and was successfully recovered" pops up. This may happen once every 30 minutes or even around 5 times in 20 Seconds, resulting in a blue screen of death. The latest driver which is currently installed for the Intel chipset is 15.13.6.64.1908 (7.15.10.1908) which seems to be causing the problems. This driver is also unsigned by microsoft, but is the most current driver to date (pcd5srvc_x64.pkms, igfxcoin_v1908.dll, and igdkmd64.sys comes up as unsigned in sigverif.exe). I uninstall this driver through Hardware Manager, but the current driver then goes down to (6.0.6001.18000). Even though this old driver is stable, my resolution is horrible and websites with picture intensive pages lag and flash like crazy. I've been searching the internet all night with this problem, and this is my last resort for an answer. I don't know what else to do. I can't even find a lower driver version for this chipset on Intel's support page.
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Jun 29, 2008
I have Windows Vista Home Basic. I installed one of my favorite star wars games(star wars addicted) everything went great. But when I run it gets fun: I get a black screen, I can see my cursor and hear the sound. But I don't see the menu And when I click on something it shuts down the game. I also tried to run it in compatibility mode but that doesn't work either. I also tried to change the resolution but that doesn't help anything.
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Jul 22, 2007
I have this problem on my "logon/welcome screen" screen flickering up and down but after i enter my "desktop" the problem stop and continue when i turn off "shut down screen" my laptop.
-windows restore.
-upgread bios firmware from hp.com.
-install latest chipset driver from intel.com
-install latest driver from intel.com
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Apr 27, 2008
My computer came pre-installed with Vista Home Premium and for some time I was able to run a slideshow of pictures as my screensaver. After a while however this feature stopped working. Then after a double virus/spyware attack I decided to make a fresh installation of Vista. However, the slideshow feature still will not work. Has anyone got any ideas how to get it to work?
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Jun 27, 2009
I have tried installing many different games on my pc, which are quite new and have been released in the last few years. The installation goes fine, and everything is great. When it comes to launching the game, well, i double click the file to run the game, and i get a black screen. Nothing happens afterwards. It just stays black. 'Ctrl + Alt + Delete' does not work, and neither does 'Alt + Tab', or any other keyboard shortcuts. This results in me having to hold in the power button and turn my pc off like that.
Any idea's on what could be wrong? It is extremely frustrating, due to the fact that i've tried running about 3 - 5 games on my computer, and neither of them work, without a black screen coming up after trying to launch any of them. I've tried numerous things like 'Running as Administrator' and changing compatibillity modes and so on and so forth, but none of that works.
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May 17, 2008
I have vista home basic 32 bit and i have installed and tryed to play numerous games including: Medieval 2: Total War, Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2 and recently Farcry. When i open Medieval 2, u can see the cursor with the loading hour glass and then it says "Error" and closes. Battle for Middle Earth 2 loads with a blank black screen but u can hear the sound from the menu. And Farcry loads with a blank black screen but u cant hear or see anything.
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Nov 14, 2009
When i run full screen games, one minute im playing the next its minimized to the task bar, it does it.. maybe every 5-10 minutes ,Any solution to what's causing it to minimize? ive attached a dxdiag (ive hidden my name)
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Mar 16, 2010
I programs, mainly my games, my full screen games, keep minimizing at random. Espically the sims 2. It hasn't ever happened before. I would start the game then the title front page would come up then it would disappear but my machine would still run as if it were there. It would never come up. My online mmorpg will continously minimize. I will click on them but they only maximize for a few seconds before minimizing again. I've tried everything i know: Running full scans on my computer with nothing showing up, getting rid of mulitiple virus protections. Ending some start up programs. Udating various thing. It's not a virus and it's not malware. I just don't know what it is anymore. I've tried googling the problem and seeing if i could find an answer that would help, it didn't. I have tried a tool made by microsoft to see if it could find the problem, it found nothing at all wrong with it. I don't know what else to do. It's never done it before. I heard that an eariler version of AVG (my virus protection) could cause it, but i uninstalled and reinstalled the latest version.
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May 15, 2010
I am receiving regular blue screens during certain games like cod 6 single player. It says the causes are due to the graphical driver being caught into an infinite loop or something like that,
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Jun 10, 2008
When trying to launch games that run in full-screen it starts up, then minimize itself, leading me back to the desktop.It still runs in the background apparently, but it will minimize right back down when I click it again. No error message at all. It used to work fine until about a month ago. I have no idea what caused this and how to fix it.
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Jun 3, 2008
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Dec 10, 2008
I have this one old game,Star Wars Jedi Knight Dark Forces II..I decided to try if the game would work on my laptop (Acer Aspire 5520),but it doesn't work correctly at all.The installation progress went just fine. Then I started the game and the intro movie worked well,however,when I got to the main menu,the screen was all black! I could hear the sounds and I could see the cursor,but nothing else.I tried this Alt +Tab trick and thank goodness, it worked.Now I could see the menu and such.Then I tried to start a new game. The small movie clip played without any problems and then it loaded the level for me. Well,the screen was okay and all that, but when I press Esc, the screen is again all black.The Alt+Tab trick worked again here.Goody.So question number one is, is there any sort of way how I can get rid of those black screens?
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Mar 11, 2009
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May 15, 2010
I have recently had strange pixilated images mixed in with our photos when playing music and selecting slide show, our photos appear along with random images, they are not coming from MY PICTURES folder as i have right clicked when the odd pic appears and they are coming from random folders that i can't find.
I thought the strange graphics were coming from itunes or Tom Tom so i have uninstalled them both...but the images keep coming. How do i stop media center looking and producing these annoying images
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Aug 26, 2009
All the pictures in my Pictures folder have disappeared, leaving behind a bunch of empty folders. I did not delete them, and I have no viruses according to AVG. It appears that this happened to a few others on this forum, but no solutions were presented. I noticed that the Read Only button was checked on the main folder, so I unchecked it, and I watched the status window un-apply "read only" protection from all my actual pictures files, so it seems to me that they're still there but invisible.
I performed a system restore, and Recova is in the process of performing a "Deep Scan" for my pictures (the quicker scan did not find the files). Has anyone solved the problem of the disappearing pictures? Is this a Vista problem, or perhaps a problem with an update?
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Apr 1, 2010
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Sep 5, 2008
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Mar 23, 2008
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Oct 16, 2009
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shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive.If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G: My Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."
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Mar 23, 2008
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Mar 31, 2010
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Mar 23, 2008
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Mar 23, 2008
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Jun 11, 2008
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