office 2007 screen flicker

[jimmyjamma81]

hi,

my dell 9400 with vista and nvidia 7900gs just arrived, and it
flickering like mad straight out of the box. with dell's advice iv
restored the factory settings and reinstalled drivers, but whe
maximising windows or opening the nvidia gpu control panel it flicker
like crazy. the flickering only goes away when i dont touch anything.

i havent even tried any serious software yet, so that will be fun.

buyer beware!!

Dell just suggested i turn of the 'Powermizer' setting in the NVidi
control panel. But my version of the control panel doesnt even includ
the 'Powermizer' on/off option. Good times!

Help

 

[XS11E]

hi,

my dell 9400 with vista and nvidia 7900gs just arrived, and its
flickering like mad straight out of the box. with dell's advice
ive restored the factory settings and reinstalled drivers, but
when maximising windows or opening the nvidia gpu control panel it
flickers like crazy. the flickering only goes away when i dont
touch anything.

i havent even tried any serious software yet, so that will be fun.

buyer beware!!

Dell just suggested i turn of the 'Powermizer' setting in the
NVidia control panel. But my version of the control panel doesnt
even include the 'Powermizer' on/off option. Good times!

Help!

Got mouse? Microsoft mouse? Running Intellipoint software? See if
dropping back to version 5 fixes the flickers.

 

[jimmyjamma81]

cheers for the advice, but ive got no intellipoint software. i did plu
an intellipoint mouse in after the problem started, but didnt instal
the software.

good old Dell tried to remote control my laptop, and then install a
old NVidia driver for XP (as NVidia dont provide a Vista driver for th
7900gs). but now the nvidia card is not responding and it still doesn
fix the bug.

they said the bug happens 'less often these days', and appears to be a
ongoing issue for multiple computer video cards combinations.

now an onsite engineering tech is coming to my place (how romantic!) t
reinstall the software from the discs i have...

might be sending it back to them pretty soon methinks

 

[XS11E]

cheers for the advice, but ive got no intellipoint software. i did
plug an intellipoint mouse in after the problem started, but didnt
install the software.

OK, it was worth a shot.

good old Dell tried to remote control my laptop, and then install
an old NVidia driver for XP (as NVidia dont provide a Vista driver
for the 7900gs). but now the nvidia card is not responding and it
still doesnt fix the bug.

they said the bug happens 'less often these days', and appears to
be an ongoing issue for multiple computer video cards
combinations.

Hmmmm.... so Dell's aware of the problem.

now an onsite engineering tech is coming to my place (how
romantic!) to reinstall the software from the discs i have...

Romantic? Probably someone old and ugly! ;-)

might be sending it back to them pretty soon methinks.

That might be the best option if they can't get it fixed.


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[MarkP]

I too have a flicker on Outlook 07. I have one of those Dell 1505
laptops. I recently reinstalled to the original condition when I
bought the computer. (CTRL+F11 on start up in case you want to do
that) I needed a clean install after all of the other OS issues, such
as being slow on start up, Outlook locking up, black screen of death
for no reason, etc. The flicker wasn't there before I did all of this.


I'm still looking to resolve the flicker, however for those fuzzy,
pixelated graphics, I installed a clear type power tool, IE 7.0, and
made sure the ATI graphics software was up to date. I then played
around with the display settings and a few other things with the
graphics, it some how was fixed. It's one of those trial and error
things. So far, IE 7 seems to be working fine and the laptop isn't
slow anymore.

I'm still thinking of getting an Apple for my next computer. I hear
this crap doesn't happen with a Mac.

Mark

 

[thespaugh]

Just to confirm what one other person posted...

I have a MS Mouse and had the flickering started after installing MS
Intellipoint v 6.2

Uninstalling and going to v 5.5 seems to have fixed it.

 

[Hopworks]

Just to confirm what one other person posted...

I have a MS Mouse and had the flickering started after installing M
Intellipoint v 6.2

Uninstalling and going to v 5.5 seems to have fixed it.

Also confirming. I just uninstalled intellipoint completely and use
Logitech mouse now. No flicker anymore. Man that was annoying!

Dell Inspiron 1505 - ATI Mobility Radeon X140