Win 10 Lenovo desktop screen flickering

neilking

New Member
Hope I've posted in the correct forum.

Screen is flickering except what it's like is not off (black) and on but it looks like a black mesh fly screen has been suddenly pulled 5/6ths of the way down the screen. I can still see through the "fly screen" but it's a bit grainy. It flashes this way at irregular intervals but averaging about once every two seconds. The frequency seems slower for about the first few minutes after switching the computer on. Gets more regular and frequent as time goes on.

Bottom 1/6th of screen is OK but sometimes goes a bit wonky with vertical lines.

I tried updating all drivers with DriverEasy but that didn't work.

Any ideas?
 

johnb35

Administrator
Staff member
1. Uninstall any program that supposedly updates your drivers. Most of them come with malware.
2. Scan your system with Malwarebytes and quarantine anything it finds.
3. Try using a different monitor.
4. If using a different monitor doesn't help then try using a different video cable.
5. Go into device manager, expand the display adapters sections and take a screenshot and post it here. We need to verify you have the correct video driver.
6. If all else fails then the onboard video or dedicated video card is going bad on you.
 

neilking

New Member
Appreciate you replying

Noted re malware - will run MWB scan

It's an all in one so can't use different monitor or cable.

Screengrab attached - is that what youwanted to see?

Thanks again
 

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johnb35

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Staff member
Go here and select automatically update your Intel drivers. You only want to go the manufacturers page to download the drivers for that particular piece of hardware.


It will download a small utility and then you will need to run it so that it can detect out of date Intel drivers. It should detect out of date video driver and show you the new one to download and install.

Siince you have an all in one then not much you can do, kinda sounds like onboard video is going out if the driver update doesn't help. Or possibly loose interior video cable? If its still under warranty, may want to get this checked out.
 

neilking

New Member
Thanks. Tried that but no joy. Looking a bit like an internal hardware problem, isn't it ... Annoying since it's only just out of warranty.

Thanks for trying though.

Neil
 

Darren

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Staff member
Just from your description I would guess the monitor is starting to die.

Try a different monitor and/or different cable/port.
 

Darren

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Staff member
Apparently I can't read.

New computer time. That display is PROBABLY replaceable if you really wanted to but I wouldn't hassle with it, and could be something else. I think a lot of those have the ability to push video externally though.
 
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