bought a used desktop, flicking screen on boot up?

Hey Sevenforums,

I just grabbed myself an awesome deal on a desktop for about 65 bucks. I booted up the computer and noticed that on boot, the screen starts to flicker and does some weird flashes. all my laptops never experience this but for computers, I don't know whether its normal or not. Not even my older desktop does this..

I uploaded a video using tinypic so please take your time to examine my computer's boot up (1:30) long.

ignore the "windows 7 is not genuine" because the person who sold it to me used a bootleg copy. I'm going to run LINUX and my own windows 7 ultimate OS.

I'm plugged into a DVI-D male to a DVI-I female (Desktop) to a HDMI (HDTV)

Video -

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smarteyeball said:

It's nothing to worry about. It looks like the handover between the default Windows video driver to the GPU driver.

Can this be fixed?

Is your computer the same way as mines?

MrNeeds said:

WindowsOP said:

smarteyeball said:

It's nothing to worry about. It looks like the handover between the default Windows video driver to the GPU driver.

Can this be fixed?

Is your computer the same way as mines?

Not really, windows loads the default driver automatically and when the OS boots and welcome is displayed, that's when the handover happens hence the flicker, it does happen on monitors every time it boots but it does it discretely, but it's noticeable on TVs as it reports a loss of signal, I suppose a practical solution would be to use a monitor but the flicker might not be justification to spend more than the computer is worth.

if I used a computer monitor instead of a hdtv, will the problems go away?

MrNeeds said:

WindowsOP said:

MrNeeds said:

Not really, windows loads the default driver automatically and when the OS boots and welcome is displayed, that's when the handover happens hence the flicker, it does happen on monitors every time it boots but it does it discretely, but it's noticeable on TVs as it reports a loss of signal, I suppose a practical solution would be to use a monitor but the flicker might not be justification to spend more than the computer is worth.

if I used a computer monitor instead of a hdtv, will the problems go away?

It's not a problem so there's not really anything to fix, it's just the way that TV's are designed, a monitor would be able to take away the flicker at the start but using a non genuine version of windows there could be a number of issues with it, try a fresh install of the OEM version you mentioned before and then we should be good to go.

Thanks,

and nice internet by the way. How much do you pay per a month for that? :)