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    T60 Flickers Upon Logon [RESOLVED]

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by acaurora, Jul 23, 2007.

  1. acaurora

    acaurora Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    I'm not sure why I haven't posted this before, but oh well:

    Hello,

    I have had this problem for quite a while now, and I honestly can't seem to figure it out -

    Essentially what happens is that once I turn on my computer and logon I watch all the programs load in the system tray - and RIGHT before the ATi tray shows up the screen flickers - mostly its the taskbar - it turns to a solid black bar and then comes back to its normal colors. The interesting part is that if I log off and log back on instead of restarting, it doesn't do that.

    I once was able to fix this, but I do not remember anymore how after reformatting it. I can only guess it's the ATi card... however I have fiddled with pretty much every setting in the Catalyst Control Center including Refresh Rate and still no dice.

    Does anyone know how to fix this?! =[ I have pretty much every setting in the Catalyst Control Center to disabled or at its very minimum level.


    EDIT: Wow... one stupid simple setting: "Mipmap Level Detail" -> High Quality fixed the flickering!

    I will leave this thread here as it may help people that have also been plagued by this problem. By the way I am using ATi official Mobility Catalyst 7.7... but I'm sure this setting / problem can happen across many different configurations as well. Admins can delete if they think otherwise ;)