- Mar 12, 2014
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Hello forum, its me again with another problem. For a week now I've been experiencing a rather alarming problem with flash player. Occasionally - meaning maybe one out of twenty times - my primary monitor will begin flickering like crazy upon opening a video. Imagine a bunch of black and white lines and maybe something like the task bar flashing across the screen.
Now, things to note: this has only started happening since I switched from DVI to HDMI. My secondary monitor stays completely normal while this is happening (which is connected through DVI). In fact, if the video triggering the flickering in question was on the secondary monitor and I closed it, the flickering stopped. If I held the power button on my PC long enough to trigger a restart, then canceled it the problem was gone too. Until today that is, where a video actually triggered a blue screen of death.
My main suspect is the 7950 OC since its apparently related to HDMI somehow. I'm thinking about trying to get it RMA'd but I'd like to make sure the GPU is actually the thing causing the problem before I do so. Its extremely annoying and unfortunately switching both monitors too DVI isn't an option since one of the DVI ports won't work for whatever reason. (Another problem with the 7950 perhaps)
I'd very much appreciate any suggestions to help me solve this. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I should probably add that I do use my rig for gaming and I have not run into and issues in game. Everything runs fine and as expected.
Now, things to note: this has only started happening since I switched from DVI to HDMI. My secondary monitor stays completely normal while this is happening (which is connected through DVI). In fact, if the video triggering the flickering in question was on the secondary monitor and I closed it, the flickering stopped. If I held the power button on my PC long enough to trigger a restart, then canceled it the problem was gone too. Until today that is, where a video actually triggered a blue screen of death.
My main suspect is the 7950 OC since its apparently related to HDMI somehow. I'm thinking about trying to get it RMA'd but I'd like to make sure the GPU is actually the thing causing the problem before I do so. Its extremely annoying and unfortunately switching both monitors too DVI isn't an option since one of the DVI ports won't work for whatever reason. (Another problem with the 7950 perhaps)
I'd very much appreciate any suggestions to help me solve this. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I should probably add that I do use my rig for gaming and I have not run into and issues in game. Everything runs fine and as expected.
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