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    Blink black screen? FZ190

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by toneka, Aug 8, 2007.

  1. toneka

    toneka Notebook Guru

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    When I start up my laptop and it gets all started up. (it starts up great) it loads a couple things, then the screen blinks black once then it finishes loading everything.


    any clue as to why? any way to fix this? anyone else experience this?
     
    toneka, Aug 8, 2007
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  2. Hartman

    Hartman Notebook Consultant

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    Mine does it too. Kind of annoying, Intel has updated x3100 drivers available that fix the problem from what I understand, but of course Sony has been slow to release them on the esupport site.
     
    Hartman, Aug 8, 2007
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  3. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    I have it too, so it's not an intel driver issue. I have the nvidia card.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Aug 8, 2007
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  4. toneka

    toneka Notebook Guru

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    Just making sure I'm not the only one guys.

    Thanks :D
     
    toneka, Aug 8, 2007
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    have same issue too with an nvida, but is not a big prob to me... i can deal with it.
     
    xavibrugal, Aug 8, 2007
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  6. Hartman

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    Hmm, well that's interesting.
     
    Hartman, Aug 8, 2007
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    Yeah, I'm having the same problem with mine too. At first I thought it had to do with the refresh rate so I check and it was selected at 59 hz. I changed it to 60 and it fixed it for a couple hours, but it's back again. It's not that big of a deal, but it does get annoying.
     
    riffjaff, Aug 8, 2007
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  8. ScuderiaConchiglia

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    Huh? We are talking about a single blink at startup. Are you talking about the same thing???

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Aug 8, 2007
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    riffjaff Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah, sorry my mistake. I'm having the single blink at startup too but since I put my computer to sleep quite often after 1-2 hours of use, it happens every time I start it back up. It was happening so often that I didn't even realize it was only occurring during the start up. It hasn't happened at any other time now that I think about it.
     
    riffjaff, Aug 8, 2007
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  10. lilplaya661

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    i have the same problem also.. let me know if there is a solution
     
    lilplaya661, Aug 8, 2007
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  11. NinjaNoodles

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    I've created a thread in this forum which solves the problem. Check it out - worked for me.
     
    NinjaNoodles, Aug 8, 2007
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  12. Duke2007

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    that happened on my dell 1520 with the 8600 GT
     
    Duke2007, Aug 8, 2007
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