hey guys so i just put together a new i7 860 system on tuesday and last night while watching a tv show on fox.com i noticed the screen to start flickering.
it seems to be that the screen flickers to black when there is hard drive activity. this is to the point where i pretty much cant use the system.
This only is happening while drivers for the video card are loaded in windows.
If i go into the system in safe mode or with drivers uninstalled, the flicker goes away.
I've tried the latest(started with these) drivers and the last one before that.
my system spec:
i7 860
msi p55-g65
4GB Kingston HyperX PC2000
BFG GTX 260
OCZ 700watt modxtream
1TB Seagate
Windows XP Pro
i'm not on the system right now but when i get back i plan on trying some older drivers to see if that helps. Otherwise i'm thinking it's a bad video card. I wonder if this is something that developed in the last two days. I'm concerned that there may be more than one bad part. bleh
any input is appreciated.
thanks.
it seems to be that the screen flickers to black when there is hard drive activity. this is to the point where i pretty much cant use the system.
This only is happening while drivers for the video card are loaded in windows.
If i go into the system in safe mode or with drivers uninstalled, the flicker goes away.
I've tried the latest(started with these) drivers and the last one before that.
my system spec:
i7 860
msi p55-g65
4GB Kingston HyperX PC2000
BFG GTX 260
OCZ 700watt modxtream
1TB Seagate
Windows XP Pro
i'm not on the system right now but when i get back i plan on trying some older drivers to see if that helps. Otherwise i'm thinking it's a bad video card. I wonder if this is something that developed in the last two days. I'm concerned that there may be more than one bad part. bleh
any input is appreciated.
thanks.