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*Solution in fifth paragraph.* **Results updated** The Lenovo Y50-Y70 came out years ago and if you've searched for a solution to the screen flickering problem in the past then I'm sure you likely found the solution that had you reduce the speed of your CPU to stop the problem. And yes -- this works, but you also lose performance. Also, the most often found solution involves reducing the CPU speed through adjusting Maximum Processor State from 100% to something less in your Windows Performance Plan. That solution should be ignored as it gimps the CPU much more than you need to when there are tools like Intel XTU and Throttlestop that exist. Those tools allow you to manually reduce your speed just enough to stop/reduce the screen flickering and that can be dropping it as little as 400MHz all-core versus the 800MHz all-core reduction that adjusting Maximum Processor State would cause. Another fix I found a while ago was a hardware fix that identified a problem with the grounding for the screen. The screen cable is wrapped in what appears to be a silver colored, conductive tape with a bit of that tape spanning from the cable to a bit of the chassis. I found a video where someone successfully re-attached that bit of tape to the chassis to improve the ground from the screen to the chassis and while that seemed to work for him -- it didn't really work for me. For a few moments I thought that it had, but the screen flickering came back just as bad as it was before. So I resorted back to reducing my CPU speed with Intel XTU. Having giving up on a hardware solution I just dealt with lower clock speeds. That is until re-pasting the CPU/GPU had me looking under the hood again and remembering that the problem was a bad ground for the screen. So then after one failed idea I finally realized a working solution. So now the fix. The super easy fix. The fix I feel so stupid for not seeing and just now trying for the first time. *Solution* Move the screen cable from where it's originally at to on top of where the bottom panel gets screwed in. Place it just out of the way of the screw hole so you can put the screw back in with the panel. Put the bottom panel back on and now you have a better ground contact for the screen cable than the original solution. Side note: You probably noticed that I included "99 96%" in the title and I did so because I still get some screen blinking, but I haven't had any of the problematic flickering that makes the screen unusable. I have been testing for around 6 hours now. The blinking I mentioned is with the CPU (Intel i7 - 4720HQ) overclocked to 3.5GHz ~ 3.6GHz all-core (previously that overclock would make the screen flicker so much it was basically all black). With the CPU at its stock all-core speed (3.4GHz) -- I haven't notice it blink at all. If I notice the flickering start to return I will come back and update this post. *fingers crossed* After a couple days of usage I have found that there are times where the flickering returns. It isn't the full on terrible flickering, but it is more than just the blinking. Unfortunately it doesn't appear that there is an absolute cure for the poor design of the screen's grounding solution. When the slight flickering returns I open and close the screen a few times and that stops the flickering again. My next post is going to be about how to get into the "advanced" BIOS for the Lenovo Y50-Y70 and some other Lenovo laptops. It's the version of the BIOS that allows you to tinker with a whole mess of goodies not exposed normally.
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Desktop 2023.12.13 - 18.05.36.03.DVR-cut-merged-1702530922321.mp4 PROBLEM: My screen flickers with artifacts and weird patterns and in the flicker will often focus on some random element of the page mid flicker but normally that is too difficult to make out. DETAILS AND CONTEXT: This happens on a new PC, no more than a couple months old. This happens 90% of the time on web browsers. I first noticed this on youtube and normally it would take a while after booting up my pc for it to happen for it's first time, then afterwards it would happen at regular intervals: once every 20 seconds to 5 minutes. It does not happen in games although when I did boot up fortnite in a virtual machine it did have a constant random black chunk/pixel effect on playermodels ingame at all times. It has at times paused for a handful of seconds whilst blacking out parts of my screen and focusing on a random UI element. Sites with 3d renderings will sometimes flicker and focus on the raw unfiltered 3d object on pages like the space X falcon 9 previews such as the one below. (I do not have an image of this happening saddly) It is also currently cutting the falcon 9 picture up into black chunks at random as I am typing this message. part of my screen has gone black and maintained that for a couple of seconds before like this on discord while i was watching a discord live stream. it blacked out like this drawn image below Things I've tried: I have disabled and re enabled multiplane overlay. used DDU to uninstall graphics drivers and searched up nvidia drivers online to install updated bios replaced GPU twice replaced cpu once replaced memory once enabling and disabling XMP used 1 stick of memory at a time replaced motherboard twice used different displayport cable used different monitor used different nvme ssd with a fresh install of windows multiple times unplugged every other storage device besides boot drive disabled hardware acceleration WHICH DOES WORK ON CHROME but that is not a fix, that is a bandaid on an issue that still persists on other applications such as discord done plenty of random command prompt and powershell repair commands although I can not remember them right now, these issues persist on fresh installs of windows though so it doesn't make much sense to me for a generic repair command to fix this problem. updated all drivers i could find At this point I believe the problem lies within my power supply or a cable from my power supply but I haven't been able to test that, I don't have cables lying around or a psu capable of swapping out. I don't really know what to do beyond replace my power supply. Specs: Intel Core i7-13700K 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 360 56.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard G.Skill Ripjaws S5 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (boot drive) Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (this was the alternate boot drive during testing) PNY GeForce RTX™ 4080 16GB Verto Triple Fan Graphics Card Corsair RM1000x (2021) 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Lian Li LANCOOL III ATX Mid Tower Case Windows 10 pro 64 bit BIOS version H.80
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i recently upgraded from a 5700xt to a 7900xt. same monitor being used on both cards. the 5700xt worked fine at 1440p 144hz no screen flickering or anything. the 7900xt has does a very fast whole screen goes white flicker for a couple miliseconds. its VERY noticeable and very annoying but it only happens at 144hz. when turning down refresh rate to 120 it stops. i just wanna play at 144hz :( PXL_20230404_144910577_2.mp4
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PC Specs picture posted down below So i Just got this pc build from Nzxt’s BLD service. Used it for 3 days so far. Screen keeps flickering(goes black for 1 second then right back on + sometimes itll flicker 2 times in about 10 seconds) and entire pc keeps freezing(never running any game, only other apps and on desktop) And when it freezes, i can always move the cursor but nothing will ever respond or load even after waiting 5-10min. (Ps. Im extremely new to this, only know basics from watching a lot of LTT, Bitwit, Jayz2Cents, and GamersNexus)
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hi, so i have a lenovo ideapad l3 laptop and i have screen flickering every time i leave the laptop to on "sleep" mode overnight. it doesnt flicker in bios/task manager, but when i go fullscreen like playing games/watch youtube, it flickers. i already tried a clean reinstall of windows and even tried multiple versions of graphic drivers so, i sent my laptop for warranty claim, and they replaced the lcd screen and its cable. however, when i gave another test to let it sleep overnight, it still flickers, also only in fullscreen. i contacted the technician and he told me to connect to an external display to see if it flickers. i connected to my tv via hdmi and it doesn't flicker on the tv but the laptop flickers. this is the wierd part. if the tv doesn't flicker, then its the laptop screen's problem! but they just replaced a new one. so the technician said it could be the motherboard's problem, and they ordered one and its now on its way. so my question is: what could be the cause of the flickering? after replacing the lcd screen, screen cable and the motherboard, is there any possibility that the flickering would happen again? which part other than the lcd screen, its cable and the motherboard could be the reason for the flickering?
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Hi LTT community, recently my pc out of no where starts flickering/black screen flashing/little squares/ all around the screen, it becomes very laggy and can give my blue screen simply by opening a browser. I am also getting driver timeout on my system. - As for the troubleshooting I tried: *System format *Cleaning GPU *changing cable/monitor *some power saving settings adjustments NONE OF THE ABOVE HELPED. SPECS: *WINDOWS 10 x64 *GPU: AMD Radeon R9 290 4gbram *CPU: intel i5 *RAM: 12Gb ddr3
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Hi, I have been trying to troubleshoot this monitor flickering problem for a few days now, and it is making me lose my mind. I was updating my drivers, and when I did, this flickering problem keeps happening to me. I am planning to upgrade to a new rig in the near future when new parts become available, I would just love this to hold on until then. Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 2600 (Stock Cooler) GPU: Gigabyte RX 580 8GB MOBO: ROG Strix B350F Gaming RAM: 2x8 HyperX 3000mHz PSU: 550W Gold+ Monitors: 2x 240Hz Acer 1080p Monitors (I am currently on driver version 20.9.1. I rolled back from the most recent version because I was getting this problem. It hasn't gone away after rolling back. My Windows version is: 19042.630) I have tried: Rolling back AMD Radeon drivers Disabling Freesync on both monitors Adding (then removing) 30% extra GPU voltage (AMD forum recommendation) I have attached a video of my problem recorded off of my phone. I can't stand to look at my monitors anymore; my eyes hurt too much. It would make my year if anyone who sees this made suggestions/helped me out! IMG-4795.MOV
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Hi, I've been having trouble recently with what I suspect is my graphics card. When watching youtube videos (no matter the browser) my screen flickers. It happens for less than a second but it occurs often enough to be noticeable. Also, when I leave my computer for a few minutes the monitor goes to sleep even though I have it set to not go to sleep for one hour. I've restarted multiple times with no success so I'm at a loss as to what to do.
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My laptop screen flickers in steam games only. I have tried reinstalling my games, restarting, changing resolutions, and using a different display via HDMI. I have a video linked of what I am talking about attached. I can't seem to find the issue. Any help would be appreciated. https://twitter.com/ccegg143/status/913243988240433152
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since more than a week I have been facing screen flickering issue on my Sapphire r9 390 which is accompanied by device attachment/detachment sound. This flickering even persists when i remove all of my usb devices(keyboard, mouse) and I have tried changing my VGA cable along with hdmi to VGA converter. I have tried upgrading my software to the latest driver available and tried few old versions of the drivers. At that time I had Windows 10 Pro as my operating system. I reinstalled Windows 10 and upgraded it to the latest version in an attempt to solve this issue. The only step that seems to solve this issue is disabling the AMD Radeon R9 390 Series display adapter from device manager. I thought this could be a Windows 10 problem and on 10th june I reverted back to Windows 7 Professional, however I am facing the same issue. Even In Windows 7 the problem would only be resolved when i disable the AMD display adapter from device manager. (Disabling Intel HD Graphics 4600 only doesn't solve this issue). The screen flickering is not continuous, It is random, usually starts within 30 minutes of bootup. As it starts occurring, I disable AMD adapter for few minutes and re enable it. This usually resolves the problem until sometime. The possibility of bad HDMI Output of my gpu is also ruled out as screen flickering occurred even when I connected my LCD to motherboards VGA output(while my gpu adapter was enabled). Also I do not overclock any of my system's components. System Configuration: Motherboard: GA-H97 HD3 CPU: Intel i7 4790 Memory: Kingston 8GB DDR3 GPU: Sapphire R9 390 VBIOS: 113-2E3240U-X4A Driver: Crimson 17.6.1 OS: Windows 7 Professional (version 6.1 build 7601 SP1) Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 943SNX Plus One important thing, while I was on Windows 10 and i used to disable AMD graphic adapter from device manager, somehow graphic card would still provide display but screen flickering would stop. This is confusing as I have tried different operating systems and different version of graphic drivers so it doesn't look like software issue. But if it is hardware issue, shouldn't there be screen flickering even after disabling the graphic adapter from device manager?
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About 5 days ago i have recently started have screen flickering issues out of nowhere whenever i have a game launched. Im not sure why this is happening or what could be the problem but my main monitor which is in between my two side monitors is fine but, for example when i start a game and then tab out or use another screen to say browse the web or watch a video or do literally anything the two side screens will barely flicker long lines sporadically every like 5 to ten seconds. i have had this setup for a very long time and it has been working fine the way it is. Specs: CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti SSD: PNY CS900 120GB SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 500GB HDD: WD Blue 1TB RAM: Aorus 3200mhz 2x8GB MBD: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5
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I really don't know how to write all this but I hope it is clear: * 2 weeks ago I bought a new RX 580. Everything was perfect. A week later I got myself a new monitor. No issues whatsoever. Because of the end of W7 support, I decided to upgrade yesterday to 10 by doing a clean install of 10. After updating everything I went ahead and played a game of LoL and my fps was around 120 but it was feeling as I was playing at 50fps. I switch to fullscreen mode from borderless and the issue was a tiny bit better but not fixed. Also, I noticed that some colors like black and green were at random times kinda flickering, as the brightness in these spots was changed really fast. I thought that maybe this was a problem with the windows10 and clean installed 7. Did everything as it was before the upgrade and I got the same weird lag. **Things I have tried:** * **DDU drivers and re install them** * **DDU drivers and install older version** * **Disable Freesync** * **Ran a benchmark and received no warnings / errors** Please let me know if u have any idea on what the problem could be. I am really confused since this problem started right after I installed windows 10 and I hadn't experienced anything before that. Is it my PSU that is a VS corsair 450w? Or it is a gpu problem? I am really confused.
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Hello all, This is my first time posting to this forum, and I'm sure someone will comment that I didn't post in the right place, or something along those line, so I apologies in advanced if that is the case! As the title expresses, I am experiencing some odd issues with my new Samsung G9 monitor and it's HDR 1000 feature. Although, I am not sure if its the G9 that is causing these problems, or another piece of hardware, or even software being the culprit. Issue #1 (with HDR turned on) When at the login screen/ logout screen / task manager screen, there is a constant flashing / flickering until I enter my password and enter Windows, or re-enter Windows. Once I return to Windows world the issues stops. Although, the second I return to windows world, the screen undergoes a brightness adjustment. Not sure if that is normal with HDR. I do not experience screen flickering in any other forms, besides mentioned. With HDR disabled, these screens are all normal, and the issue does not occur. Issue #2 (with HDR turned on) As I alluded to earlier about the brightness adjustments, also, randomly occurring when gaming, and even sometimes when just browsing the web or at the desktop, although I mostly recall it happening primarily when gaming, the brightness will shoot straight up until the screen is practically white, and re-adjust back to the correct levels within a couple seconds, obliterating my eyes. This can happen a couples times, once or never during a session. I am not sure what's triggering it. As pointed out, this issue only occurs when HDR is enabled in Windows display settings. When I disable HDR, I do not experience any of the above issues. Possible 3rd issue I cannot not seem to get nvidia control panel to display the monitor running at 240hz. It only allows me to select 60hz and 120hz. I do have it selected in the monitors menu, along with response time = fastest, and adaptive = sync disabled. I did have a chat with a guy from nvidia about this issue, and he mentioned that he was pretty sure that a 1080ti did not support 5120x1440 at 240hz, only at 120hz. Although, he did not seem sure of himself. I am currently running 3 screens, including the G9. I did see in Linus's review of the G9, and that he had a little hiccup when trying to get the monitor to run at 240hz, but was able to correct it. I am assuming he was running a RTX 2080ti, which may be the reason I cannot get it to run at 240hz because of a bottle neck, which is fine, just would like to validate there is nothing wrong with the hardware. I plan on upgrading to RTX 3090, which would allow me to test this issue, but who knows when they will be available, and I'd like to get this sorted, because having a $2,000 monitor that your not sure is running properly, and there was a weird recall involving quality control, and other sketchy things, bugs me out, along with the fact that you can't purchase the G9 presently, at least that I'm aware of. So, I am trying to solve/ understand these problems, so that I can make a proper decision if whether I need to RMA, and go down that sad, long trail. Other than these minor issues, the monitor runs great, truly a treat to game on. Would not want to down grade, unless this product was indeed faulty. My set up; Windows 10 Home Version = 1909 OS Build = 18363.1082 nVidia Driver = 451.67 Intel i9990k 32 GB ram GTX 1080ti Asus Formula X mobo Samsung 970 EVO M.2 Thank you so very much! : )
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A few weeks ago, windows automatically installed an update and after that, I tried playing rocket league and the screen goes black for a second every 5 seconds. Note: I have been using this setup for nearly 4 years with ZERO issues and I have no OC's on and nothing is overheating. I tried on GTA 5 and Valorant and it does the same. The flickers occurs on both of my monitors and sometimes at the same time, but I can still hear the game and there's no stuttering. Additionally, on MSI Afterburner, when I increase the voltage limit, the flickering becomes MUCH more frequent. With the 1070, I also get issues during restarts where sometimes the screen just goes totally black and I have to hard reboot. Pls help Things I have tried: Reinstalling windows (did not fix) DDU and reinstalling gpu drivers (did not fix) Trying different monitors separably (did not fix) Trying the IGPU (fixed the issue) Trying a new gpu (fixed the issue) Trying new power supply (did not fix the issue) Tried dusting pc (did not fix) I really have a hard time believing that my card is dying because what are the chances it occurs right after a windows update? My theory is that the new windows update installed a new version of Microsoft store nvidia control panel that is compatible with the RTX 2070 SUPER that I tested, but not compatible with my 1070, or it is glitching with my 1070?. Pls help! System CPU I7 6700K Motherboard ASUS PRIME Z270-A RAM GSKILL RIPJAWS V DDR4 16GB 3000MHZ GPU MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G Case NZXT S340 RED Storage WD 1TB BLUE AND SAMSUNG EVO 250GB SSD PSU EVGA 650W GQ Display(s) LG 25UM58-P ULTRAWIDE and LG 29UMP58-P ULTRAWIDE Cooling CORSAIR H100I GTX Keyboard CORSAIR K70 Mouse LOGITECH G502 Sound ASTRO A40 Operating System Windows 10 PRO
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I am struggling with my old Core2Duo computer Keyboard and Mouse starts reconnecting just after few minutes of using it just then screen starts to flicker a bit. Even after restarting it immediately it doesn't works ... Crazy thing is after restarting keyboard doesn't even work in bios menu.. after leaving it for an hour or so it seems to work again for a few minutes then crashes again the system is not hanged or something problem is with just keyboard and mouse. I thought something is wrong with the keyboard so I bought new Hp C2500 keyboard and mouse they are working on my laptop perfectly but the issue is same with my old computer
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I bought an MHL adapter to use with my Optimus G (LG-LS970) and it didn't want to work with my monitor (Asus VS229) so I hooked it into my older Phillips TV(2008-ish model unknown) and it caused the screen on the phone to gray out and go unresponsive. I had to restart the phone to do anything and when it restarted the screen was flickering during boot up and while the phone is running. Does anyone have any idea why this happened? I can't provide pictures or video as this phone is my only camera. The phone is running standard Android 4.1.2 with no changes whatsoever. Edit** While typing this up I went to the phone again to be sure that I had gotten the version on android right and I noticed that the screen had stopped flickering. Still want to know if anyone has any ideas as to what happened and why it didn't work.
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Hello guys bear with me its gonna be long. I bought a graphics card from eBay ( second hand) MSI r9 270x HAWK at 120 bucks. When i plugged in my graphics card it worked fine. I downloaded some drivers and uninstalled my old nvidia ones but after that when i restarted the pc the screen went black after the window boot up ( you know when the window logo disappears and stuff) And the screen flickers. But when i use mouse the arrow shows up on screen but not the display and all. I should mention that I have shitty Psu 500w the 18 dollars one. After 3,4 times of restart the I noticed a sound coming from psu's fan Then I tried my older graphics card and its working. Please help me with some thing. What could be the problem. (My older gpu is gt610)
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TL;DR The windows over lay sucks, find your exe files and disable full screen optimization (doesn't work for all games )also horrible screen flicker just in general on second display. So I was always under the impression that windows without an activation key was a benign little hinderance at the bottom of my screen. But recently that overlay has been the bane of my existence. I just built my pc with many hiccups in between. I had a hard drive failure and at first thought it was my GPU due to smite crashing every time it loaded. But further investigation showed corrupt files associated with smite and DirectX11 in general. I ran sfc/ scannow in the command prompt and my SSD had unfixable corrupt files. So I loaded my OS onto another drive of mine and boom no problems. But about 2 or 3 hours of gaming, i noticed a stutter in all my games. At first I thought it was just Apex but every single game from Witcher 3 to low end games like Bullets Per Minute having this ridiculous stutter. But the weird thing was, I wasn't dropping frames. In Apex i was still hitting 100+ frames with no major drops. I was very confused. So I tried doom eternal, again same issue. I'm over my frame limit with freesync enabled and still getting horrible stutter. so I come to the conclusion I have a faulty GPU. 2 to 3 hours of gaming and then horrible stutter? sounds like I have a crappy GPU, and not to help it, my GPU is the XFX 5700 xt, a card known for being hot. So I start a return with the retailer. I go on to some forums cause I don't want to return this card, I have been building this computer for over a month now. But I saw a post on how OC ram may cause stutter in game, so I returned my ram to stock stetting and BOOM no stutter. I canceled the return and hopped on apex and was having a blast. However the stutter returns and I am pissed. I could not for the life of me figure it out. Eventually I noticed if I reset my computer the stutter goes away, which in itself is odd, but still seemed like a GPU issue. But then i noticed that the windows activation water mark was missing. That's when I put the two together. I scoured the internet for similar problems. I found very few but it seemed like it was my issue. So eventually I found the fix on steam and that is to find the .exe file for your game and to right click and then go to combability and turn off fullscreen optimizations. Fixed most of my issues. When the watermark is present, there is horrible screen flicker especially on my second display which is horrible for my eyes. Overall I am going to buy a cheap windows home key.
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