Display "blinking" when playing games? / Can't boot into AHCI, help.

Zylhent

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Apr 27, 2014
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Hello guys, whenever I play a game (skyrim, ACIV, etc) my display would start to "blink". it's not a flicker because my display would just turn off and on again. this started happening after I foolishly installed watch dogs just to try out if I could run it generately good on all low settings, turns out I could with minimal lag but then my display started to "blink". so after the intro, I uninstalled it and dare not touch again. after that event I updated my graphics driver but my pc wouldn't boot at all and it would freeze at "starting windows" screen. I had to change my bios setting to IDE from AHCI to get it running again. then after I booted it up again, everything went A-okay. it went on for a week or so but yesterday the problem came back. I've removed, replaced and reinstalled my graphics drivers but no luck. I'm thinking what could've gone wrong? My GPU's temps ticks at around 45 degrees when I play so it's not overheating. I checked my RAM sticks but theyre not the problem. What could've gone wrong? and can anyone help me with how to boot back using AHCI? I tried the steps all over the net now.. nothing seems to work. Please and thank you!
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HD 5570
4.00gb ram
Atlhon II 2x 260 3.2ghz
Windows 64-bit
 

Prock

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Did you attempt to Overclock your GPU at one point and never set it back? I know this happens when your Overclock is too high. Oh this also happens when your GPU is on its last leg and is about to bite the bullet.
 

Zylhent

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Apr 27, 2014
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I haven't overclocked my GPU.. hope my GPU won't bite the dust. :( I just got this last 4 months and the warranty just ended... I'm broke right now. :(