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Second monitor flickers when there is a specific shade of blue
I have a strange problem with my second monitor. I use my laptop to do all my work, I have a second monitor (Gateway FHX2300) that connects to my laptop using a HDMI cable.
Whenever there is enough of a specific shade of blue displayed on the second monitor, part of or the entire second monitor would flicker, and look a bit static-y. The shade of blue that seems to make my second monitor go into fritz is the same dark blue used on the top of this page (that is why I am typing this on my primary monitor). It's also the same blue as the Windows 7 login screen so *sometimes* when I open my laptop, the screen would either look extremely distorted or be completely black with few seconds of the top or middle of bottom of the login screen showing but still looking distorted and static-y.
If my second monitor becomes all distorted I can Print Screen and paste it on Paint but the static and distortion won't show up if viewed on my primary monitor. I tried print screening this page with the dark blue above while the screen looked static-y. When viewed from my primary monitor it looks fine but whenever I drag Paint to my second monitor with the dark blue of this page in it, the flicker would come back. If I drag Paint back to my primary monitor, the static would stop again. I can literally do this back and fourth to repeat the static.
Is this a problem with my HDMI or my second monitor? Is there a way to fix this by myself?