bought a used desktop, flicking screen on boot up?

[WindowsOP]

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]

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

 

[WindowsOP]

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]

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.

 

[WindowsOP]

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]

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?

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.

 

[WindowsOP]

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?

 

[MrNeeds]

it's fibre optic cable, comes in a package with my tv services, i pay about £60 with telephone landline, i think it's about $100 a month.

 

[maxie]

it's fibre optic cable, comes in a package with my tv services, i pay about £60 with telephone landline, i think it's about $100 a month.

Do you get Free Telephone calls with that package ?

 

[MrNeeds]

yep, free calls to 0845, 0870, 01, 02, 03 numbers at anytime upto an hour.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there

depending on the mobo in the computer it might be worth going for a decent separate GPU - you don't have to go bonkers in buying a new one.

The other things to look for -- is the monitor OK - they do wear out eventually - even modern LCD / plasma ones. Check also if the driver is operating the monitor at the correct refresh rate.

If you are running Linux -- modern distros like MINT will probably load the correct driver - unless it's NVIDIA -- these have to be got separately from the NVIDIA repositories.

You can also run Windows easily as a Virtual machine on linux - VMware player and vbox install easily and are free.

When I'm in the UK - I HATE virgin media - they block a lot of sites although you can bypass that easy enough - I shouldn't have to go that route though and I still can't get to my US Netflix or Hulu tv stuff without going through decent proxies. For UK Virgin ISP users try this http://piratebrowser.com/ to unblock a lot of sites -- this uses the TOR network --totally LEGAL BTW.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[maxie]

Sorry wrong Thread

 

[maxie]

No idea what is happening today

 

[smarteyeball]

It's not a problem so there's not really anything to fix, it's just the way that TV's are designed

Yep. Between the driver handover (which re-triggers the TV input source flicker as the TV "loses" it's input source for a split second) there is nothing to fix as mentioned. It's not causing any harm. I've had it when I've used a TV as a primary screen and even get it occasionally when going from 3 monitors to one, or to the TV.