screen flickering artifacts

[Lays]

I just went to turn on SLI earlier with beta driver 331.93, screens went black like normal, but never refreshed back into my desktop, so I restarted the comp.  After re-booting into windows, my drivers were uninstalled so I went and re-installed, turned on SLI, this time it worked fine.  But now my screens keep flickering with artifact lines vertically across my screen.

 

I uninstalled the beta driver, and re-installed 331.82, and it's still flickering, not sure wtf is wrong but thats why I'm here.

[Lays]

I meant to make this in troubleshooting, @Windspeed36 can you possibly move it? my bad

[Altecice]

Have you tested both cards by themselfs to make sure its not a hardware issue?

 

Did you run Driver sweeper in safe mode to remove the drivers and any traces, then installed new Nvidia drivers?

[Lays]

Have you tested both cards by themselfs to make sure its not a hardware issue?

 

Did you run Driver sweeper in safe mode to remove the drivers and any traces, then installed new Nvidia drivers?

 

 

Why would it be a hardware issue when the hardware hasn't been messed with though? It was fine before this new driver

[OneGun]

Did you completely Purge all old drivers before install? 

[Lays]

Did you completely Purge all old drivers before install? 

 

 

no, I need to do that I suppose, could you show me how? I've never done anything with windows safe mode like @Altecice mentioned

[Altecice]

no, I need to do that I suppose, could you show me how? I've never done anything with windows safe mode like @Altecice mentioned

 

Very simple to do.

 

Go to start > Run type in "MSCONFIG"

go to the boot tab

select safe boot minimal

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Reboot the pc and you will be in safe mode

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Run driversweeper

LINK

Check the box "remove physX"

check box "Remove c:\Nvidia folders

Click the button "Highly Reccomended"

Your computer will restart

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Run through the driver sweeper steps again but this time before you click the button go back in MSCONFIG and unselect safeboot

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Your computer should now boot normally with no drivers, then go onto install your drivers

[OneGun]

no, I need to do that I suppose, could you show me how? I've never done anything with windows safe mode like @Altecice mentioned

You can use Driver Sweeper!

[Lays]

Very simple to do.

 

Go to start > Run type in "MSCONFIG"

go to the boot tab

select safe boot minimal

---

Reboot the pc and you will be in safe mode

---

Run driversweeper

LINK

Check the box "remove physX"

check box "Remove c:\Nvidia folders

Click the button "Highly Reccomended"

Your computer will restart

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Run through the driver sweeper steps again but this time before you click the button go back in MSCONFIG and unselect safeboot

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Your computer should now boot normally with no drivers, then go onto install your drivers

 

 

tysm, It also fixed my nvidia-control panel issues where it'd take FOREVER to apply changes and stop working halfway through

 

 I believe it fixed the flickering, will play some games and see if fixed, so far so good though

[mvitkun]

tysm, It also fixed my nvidia-control panel issues where it'd take FOREVER to apply changes and stop working halfway through

 

 I believe it fixed the flickering, will play some games and see if fixed, so far so good though

For future reference these guys are speaking generally based on how they wipe drivers with AMD drivers and cards.

Nvidia has the much easier option to uninstall and do a clean install in their driver installer.

[Lays]

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nvm, it just flickered like 3 times again -.-

 

is it one of the cards then? I haven't messed with anything for weeks, -.-

[Lays]

@mvitkun @Altecice I found this thread http://www.overclock.net/t/802240/solution-for-flickering-screen-with-nvidia-sli

 

someone described when they took their sound card out they bumped the bridge, which is exactly what I just did last week, I sold my soundcard on ebay, I re-adjusted the bridge, hopefully it fixes it. It'd make sense because I haven't had SLI enabled since I did it, because I've been mining dogecoins+other coins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: turned out it was the crappy ass HDMI to DVI-D i was using, my new dvi-d dual link 10 foot cable showed up, plugged it in and it stopped.