SOLVED Display Keeps Blinking

[Redrum]

Sometimes after the computer comes out of sleep mode the display blinks off and on. And just keeps doing it. This only seems to happen in a browser window IE or FireFox. Doesn't happen on the desk top. If I leave it alone to go back to sleep it usually awakens and works fine again.

Any ideas?
Thanks...

 

[Nibiru2012]

Probably has something to do with your drivers. Check to be sure you have the latest video card driver and monitor driver.

 

[Redrum]

I had the latest ATI drivers downloaded from this site. I looked around and found new moniter drivers and installed those also. We shall see how that goes now !

 

[R1ker]

Do you have a crt or a lcd monitor?

 

[Redrum]

Samsung 205BW is a 20" Wide Screen Digital LCD Moniter.

 

[Nibiru2012]

Latest ATI Radeon Drivers are v9.12

 

[Redrum]

When I did the clean install the drivers on 12/12/09 were 9.11. I doubt installing the 9.12 will help but I will check the read me file to see what the change / update was mainly for.

 

[R1ker]

This might be a long shot but did you update all of you're motherboard's drivers to the latest version. You're ACPI might be messing around.

 

[Redrum]

As far as I know all drivers are up to date now. So far it hasn't done it again since I updated the Moniter drivers so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. As soon as I'm sure its alright I'll mark this post
* Solved *


Thanks,
Greg...

 

[Nibiru2012]

I just remembered that problem happened to me a few years ago with an nVidia card.

Is the graphics onboard your motherboard or is it a separate video card? If it's separate you may have a thermal interface compound issue. My card's thermal compound had separated and was causing the card to overheat.

 

[Redrum]

This is a separate video card an ATI X1900XT. Its an older card but still up to the task. I just upgraded the motherboard, CPU, memory and cooler. The vid card comes next probably with a 4870 ATI. My specs are filled out you can view them. The card worked fine with XP Pro. I think the moniter drivers fixed the problem though. OS with Windows 7 Pro is new also.

 

[clifford_cooley]

The vid card comes next probably with a 4870 ATI.

I think you would be happier with a 5000 series card within the next few years.