Summary (short story): Noticed performance issues, re-installed graphics driver, and on the top and bottom half-inches of the screen, it flickers with horizontal bands of white/black. Also, the same performance issues remained. I then wiped my hard-drive and the same thing remained. Note, this only happens when I'm using the gaming-graphics, not the integrated. It also is fine when using an external monitor.
Story (long story): After I noticed some performance issues in my Alienware M17X laptop, I uninstalled and re-installed one of my graphics card drivers (this one: Radeon HD 6870M not the integrated graphics) and the result contains several problems. The performance issues remained, which happen sporadically (just as before I uninstalled and reinstalled). Some days my games will run great (Guild Wars 2, Battlefield III, and Starcraft II on high graphics) and others it will fail to play the games on low graphics with FPS scores around 20 (on low settings). What's worse is that the top and bottom half inch of the screen flickers and shifts constantly. On the top half inch of the screen, it is a bunch of shifting (by shifting, I mean that what is displayed will go up and down around once every 5 milliseconds) and bands/lines of horizontal lines. Note, the flickering only happens when I'm using the Radeon HD 6870M graphics card. When I switch to integrated graphics, it works just fine. Same thing when I hook it up to an external monitor. On the bottom half inch, there is a horizontal band (about 5 pixels in width) that flickers on and off. So, to fix the problem, I formatted my main partition and re-installed Windows along with the drivers (in the correct order) and the result is the same. What is the problem? LCD along with a broken graphics card? Or just the graphics card?
Story (long story): After I noticed some performance issues in my Alienware M17X laptop, I uninstalled and re-installed one of my graphics card drivers (this one: Radeon HD 6870M not the integrated graphics) and the result contains several problems. The performance issues remained, which happen sporadically (just as before I uninstalled and reinstalled). Some days my games will run great (Guild Wars 2, Battlefield III, and Starcraft II on high graphics) and others it will fail to play the games on low graphics with FPS scores around 20 (on low settings). What's worse is that the top and bottom half inch of the screen flickers and shifts constantly. On the top half inch of the screen, it is a bunch of shifting (by shifting, I mean that what is displayed will go up and down around once every 5 milliseconds) and bands/lines of horizontal lines. Note, the flickering only happens when I'm using the Radeon HD 6870M graphics card. When I switch to integrated graphics, it works just fine. Same thing when I hook it up to an external monitor. On the bottom half inch, there is a horizontal band (about 5 pixels in width) that flickers on and off. So, to fix the problem, I formatted my main partition and re-installed Windows along with the drivers (in the correct order) and the result is the same. What is the problem? LCD along with a broken graphics card? Or just the graphics card?
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