geforce 7600gs dual monitor Flicker
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Name: myequation
Date: April 27, 2007 at 06:44:58 Pacific
Subject: geforce 7600gs dual monitor FlickerOS: xpCPU/Ram: p4/1gbModel/Manufacturer: me |
Comment: I just installed a new gigabyte geforce 7600gs agp card,
I have a dual monitor setup, with some big *** CRTs
I had this setup with my older geforce 5500 with NO issues Everything seems great with this upgrade except for one really annoying thing..
My secondary monitor seems to flicker when i click on certain things, Like nivida control panel, or display properties etc etc.
I'm not making any changes when the flicker occurs, I'm simply clicking the nvidia tray icon Anyone had this happen? Is there a fix?
If you guys need a big list of system specs I can post them.
But I don't wanna at present (in a hurry) Computacating
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Name: Mattwizz3 (by mattwizz3)
Date: April 27, 2007 at 07:46:27 Pacific
Subject: geforce 7600gs dual monitor Flicker |
Reply: (edit)By the flicker do you mean the refresh rate or do you mean the screen goes black and resets a few times. If its the screen going black a few times it's not really something you can do anything about, its got to do with the driver. You can try different driver versions and see which (if any) driver stops the flicker. If that dosent work you might have to live with it! Mattwizz3 : ) Sempron 2600+ @ 2.2GHz
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Name: myequation
Date: April 27, 2007 at 08:32:44 Pacific
Subject: geforce 7600gs dual monitor Flicker |
Reply: (edit)It's not a refresh rate thing, it's more like it skips a beat, aka does a little flutter. I'll try different drivers, Computacating
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Name: OtheHill
Date: April 27, 2007 at 14:32:08 Pacific
Subject: geforce 7600gs dual monitor Flicker |
Reply: (edit)The amount of GPU RAM probably would affect this. You said you ran this setup before with a different card. Did that card have the same amount of memory on it?
If the monitors are running at high resolutions at 32bit color depth you could try lowering the settings. The difference between 16bit and 32bit is hard to distinguish but uses less resources. Also check Device Manager to see if the IRQ used by the Graphics card is being shared by other hardware. If so, look in the BIOS screens for setting to assign IRQ for PCI graphics. AGP is an extension of the PCI bus. Lastly, look at the AGP aperture settings in the BIOS. You may get better results by lowering or raising the value. With 1GB of RAM you could try 256MBs.
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Name: Tim Boundy (by gigaplex)
Date: July 3, 2007 at 08:47:30 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I have the same problem. I am running Vista with a 7600GS on dual LCD screens. The flicker (looks like some form of temporary memory corruption) does not exist in the basic driver that came bundled with Vista and I don't think it happened in 97 series drivers. The problem is, these drivers have other bugs or performance issues that render them unusable. The only thing we can do at this stage is wait for new drivers and hope they don't break something else (each new driver seems to fix something and break something else).
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