Hello all I have a very difficult to solve flickering second monitor. I know what you're thinking, but i know what i'm doing and I've already tried the 'normal' stuff. Here's the story.
I'm assisting people in a new office my company has set up. They originally had everyone set to work on virtual machines hosted off site, but there were issues. So the company sent hard drives with everything pre-installed. The idea was to put them in the machines and get right to work. After we did this one monitor on one PCs started to flicker on one screen. Specifically the screen using the VGA cable (the other is DP).The steps we used to trouble shoot were:
-Trying different cables
-Trying different monitors
-Checking that the refresh rate was correct
-Uninstalled and re-installed different versions of the drivers (intel HD)
-Trying the monitors on different computers
After this we got desperate so we pulled the HDD out and threw it in a different machine, and we still got the flickering. At this point the flickering seems inexplicably linked to the HDD. Unfortunately we need to use this HDD because it has all the special permissions, access, proprietary software, etc. we need and it will take a few days to get someone to re-install all of this. At this point the only other idea i have is to copy the entire image and put it on a new HDDand see if that solves things. Unfortunately that's a lot of work and I doubt the physical HDD is the problem, it has to be some sort of weird software bug.
Any ideas?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?
I'm assisting people in a new office my company has set up. They originally had everyone set to work on virtual machines hosted off site, but there were issues. So the company sent hard drives with everything pre-installed. The idea was to put them in the machines and get right to work. After we did this one monitor on one PCs started to flicker on one screen. Specifically the screen using the VGA cable (the other is DP).The steps we used to trouble shoot were:
-Trying different cables
-Trying different monitors
-Checking that the refresh rate was correct
-Uninstalled and re-installed different versions of the drivers (intel HD)
-Trying the monitors on different computers
After this we got desperate so we pulled the HDD out and threw it in a different machine, and we still got the flickering. At this point the flickering seems inexplicably linked to the HDD. Unfortunately we need to use this HDD because it has all the special permissions, access, proprietary software, etc. we need and it will take a few days to get someone to re-install all of this. At this point the only other idea i have is to copy the entire image and put it on a new HDDand see if that solves things. Unfortunately that's a lot of work and I doubt the physical HDD is the problem, it has to be some sort of weird software bug.
Any ideas?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?
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