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Vampyrinia

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    Dell Monitor will not stop flashing
    « on: February 17, 2009, 09:16:56 AM »
    Hey! Here is my newest problem. My pc started to do this after my hubby was playing a very graphical game (4 Elements) and playing a streaming radio at the same time. He leaves the game running all the time and I wonder if that has messed things up somewhat.
    Anyway, The screen flashes and you can still do things on it but the graphics get garbled and it even affects the start up screen.
    If you try to run any type of scan the flashing speeds up
    note: This does not happen in Safe mode
    I have done a system restore, updated my Nvidia drivers, checked resolutions, disabled the themes.....
    Ran AVG, Spybot and Malwarebytes- nothing was detected
    what next?
    Any help appreciated.... :)

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    Re: Dell Monitor will not stop flashing
    « Reply #1 on: February 17, 2009, 09:41:04 AM »
    Best bet would be to hook it up to another machine...this will tell you if it's the monitor or not...
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      Re: Dell Monitor will not stop flashing
      « Reply #2 on: February 17, 2009, 10:26:16 AM »
      If it was the monitor would it not blink and flash while in safe mode as well? ???

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      Re: Dell Monitor will not stop flashing
      « Reply #3 on: February 17, 2009, 11:28:06 AM »
      Not neccessarily...
      It will be running on generic Windows drivers however this would not preclude it being a monitor problem...

      However i just noticed this is a DELL machine...nVidia drivers should NOT be used...DELL's are picky about drivers.
      Visit the DELL site and enter your Service Tag # and it will list all the drivers for that machine...
      Re-install the DELL  video drivers.
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