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WINDOWS VISTA - SCREEN FLICKERING

I have recently bought Windows Vista x64 (as my processor is a AMD Athlon 64 X2) and I'm having a problem. Throughout the end of the installation my screen started to flicker. I thought it would be just a quick thing, but it wasn't. After everything had completed installing and everything rebooted. My screen just kept flickering.

I have tried changing refresh rates, though, nothing changed. I have also tried 3 different monitors, and still, it kept flickering. I'm now downgraded back to my Windows XP, though I'm really looking forward to actually using what I have bought.

Thanks in advance,

~ drumer901

Ian Meredith

G'day Drumer901,

any chance you know was your other hardware components are (make/model)??

drumer901

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It's a gateway computer, that I bought last year. It also said that it was "Windows Vista Guarantied Ready". http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/5876/5876sp3.shtml

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Did you do upgrade or clean install?

drumer901

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Clean install.

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drumer901

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I have no idea what Aero Basic is, and I remember I had tried booting in safe mode, and it did not flicker.

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It's a NVIDIA GeForce 6100. But why would it flicker normally, but not in safe mode?

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So, if I have read everything correctly, I'm to leave my computer on sleep mode for about a day, and come back to it and it should be fine? And if that doesn't work, I'm to reboot and see if that works?