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    Infrequent Screen Flashing (Not hardware) on P34Wv5

    Discussion in 'Gigabyte and Aorus' started by ehou333, May 31, 2017.

  1. ehou333

    ehou333 Notebook Enthusiast

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    About every 30 min or so my screen flashes for about half a second. I'm 99% sure its not the typical loose screen connection issue because it doesn't happen if I bump my laptop or move the lid. The flashing seems to occur absolutely randomly and I can't reproduce it. I also tried turning the display to always use the GPU or always use integrated graphics in the NVIDIA control panel, but the flashing still occurs. I'm totally stumped. Anyone else have this issue?

    This is probably not related, but sometimes when I boot up my laptop, a dotted white line will appear horizontally through the black screen when the Gigabyte logo pops up. Also sometimes a dotted spinning circle will appear on instead. This has happened for the past year, but I've never had an other issues, so I assumed it was nothing.
     
    ehou333, May 31, 2017
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Have you tried updating (or reverting) your Intel graphics drivers or checking your RAM? Maybe try disable Intel DPST in the Intel graphics control panel? That might possibly play with the backlight.
     
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    ehou333 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah I made sure I have the latest Intel driver using the Intel drive utility, but this issue has occurred through multiple graphics driver updates. I've also reseated the RAM last month and the problem was occurring before and still occurs, so I don't think its the RAM. According to the goggling, it seems DPST is no longer on the Intel graphics control panel, and when I check the my advance power settings, I already have adaptive brightness turned off.

    I've actually had this issue for over 6 months, and I've only finally gotten around to asking if other people have the issue. Its annoying and it would be nice to fix, but its bearable.
     
    ehou333, Jun 1, 2017
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