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    Video Playback Issues - Dots and Flicker

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by CpxAzn, Jul 29, 2011.

  1. CpxAzn

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    I am having some video playback issues on my new Power Pro 11:36 (MSI 16F2) laptop.
    I have Windows 7 64bit and I use Windows Media Player to watch videos.

    Time to time, I see scattered dots during video playback. When the dots show up, they all show up in the same color, and they show up only for a split second. Sometimes I even get a screen flicker.

    There was one time where after the screen flickered, it stayed at a black screen. Alt-tabbing brought me to windows, where everything was gray and there was no text anywhere. I have never seen anything like this. Surprisingly, alt+ctrl+del brought up the correct blue screen with the different options which displayed correctly. I restarted the laptop from there.

    I do not get any sort of artifacting while gaming. I have stress tested with furmark and OCCT and they run fine. 3DMark2011 also runs fine, scored 2045.

    These are the things I have tried, but the problem is still occurring:
    -Switching Video Codecs from klite to cccp
    -Memtest86+ (9 passes, 0 errors)
    -Reinstalling video and chipset drivers
    -Scanning hard drive for bad sectors
    -Switched to VLC

    I have run out of ideas. I don't know what possibly could be causing this problem. Please help!
     
    CpxAzn, Jul 29, 2011
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  2. atbnet

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    Do you have an external monitor? You could see if the same dots appear when you have another monitor attached. That could troubleshoot between a hardware problem with the video card or screen itself.
     
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    I don't have an external monitor. Just using the laptop monitor.

    I actually decided to run a long generic test on my hard drive and it failed. I only ran the short and smart test before which passed. Hopefully if this is the problem. Will find out after I fix it.
     
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    Okay I took out the hard drive with the bad sectors, but I'm still having issues.

    I was just watching a video on the internet, not even in full screen, and I find dots flashing on my taskbar.

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    This is NOT stuck pixels. They went away when I refreshed my desktop. They also go away when I put my mouse over them.

    There was also a time when the whole taskbar was flashing pinkish color.
     
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    It looks like a hardware issue with the video card.
     
    atbnet, Jul 29, 2011
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