help please

[cantthinkofone]

right guys iv recently had a computer built for me <spec below> and everything was going ok but the screen has some serious flickering happening , ive instaled the latest drivers for the screen <sony SDM-S51> but no joy , ive instaled the latest drivers for my graphics card <radeon 2400 HD> but still no joy .
one thing i have noticed is the screen refresh rate will not go higher than 60 hertz do you think the screen is too old for the computer or is the graphics card knackered


OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer To Be Filled By O.E.M.
System Model To Be Filled By O.E.M.
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz, 3000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. P1.40, 30/06/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.25 GB
Total Virtual Memory 6.19 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.51 GB
Page File Space 3.29 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

display information

Name ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_94C3&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_00\4&1E1 AFE1F&0&0018
Adapter Type ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x94C3), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible
Adapter Description ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series
Adapter RAM 256.00 MB (268,435,456 bytes)
Installed Drivers atidxx32.dll,atidxx64,atiumdag.dll,atiumdva.cap,at iumd64,atiumd6a,atitmm64
Driver Version 7.01.01.849
INF File oem9.inf (ati2mtag_RV610 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1024 x 768 x 60 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xFDFF0000-0xFDFFFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000D000-0x0000DFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 4294967291
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atikmdag.sys (7.1.1.849, 3.99 MB (4,179,968 bytes), 01/12/2008 22:14)

right guys iv just been searching through device manager and what ive found out is a lot of stuff seems to have no drivers installed but if i try to update driver it says i have the best driver installed ???

here is a list of a few that have no driver installed , iv also installed a piece of software called radarsync which checks your computer for out of date drivers and it says im up to date ???

direct memory access controller
motherboard resources
nforce memory controller
numeric data processor
nvidia nforce pci system management
pci standard ram controller
programable interrupt controller
system board
system speaker
system timer

how can all these have no drivers installed ?????

another issue is memory total and available there seems to be a big difference
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.25 GB
Total Virtual Memory 6.19 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.51 GB
Page File Space 3.29 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

 

[Dystopia]

what is your resolution? on my screen, i can have it at 1024x768, and get up to 85 hertz refresh rate. but at 1240x1024, i can only have it at 60, so its probably the refresh rate. as for the fickering, make sure the screen and GPU are properly connected. if they are, try a different monitor. Still the same thing, try a different GPU. hope it works out for ya!

 

[alexander]

i have noticed is the screen refresh rate will not go higher than 60 hertz

I just had a quick scan through your post and firstly 60 Hz is the normal refresh rate for PC's, so thats OK; perhaps you might try lowering the refresh rate and see what that does...

Perhaps check the connections to your screen, GPU to motherboard etc, to make sure they're all good.

Also, try your PC with another monitor, your television will do if you have the right cables/ports on it; just to see if that makes a difference.

Another thing, to check that the problem isn't with Windows, would be trying another OS on your PC live on a CD, if you know how, though don't worry if you don't; it probably isn't Windows anyway so thats not really important.

 

[StrangleHold]

right guys iv just been searching through device manager and what ive found out is a lot of stuff seems to have no drivers installed but if i try to update driver it says i have the best driver installed ???

here is a list of a few that have no driver installed , iv also installed a piece of software called radarsync which checks your computer for out of date drivers and it says im up to date ???

direct memory access controller
motherboard resources
nforce memory controller
numeric data processor
nvidia nforce pci system management
pci standard ram controller
programable interrupt controller
system board
system speaker
system timer

how can all these have no drivers installed ?????

What makes you think those drivers are not installed? Are there yellow ! points beside them in device manager? If so, its a Nvidia Nforce chipset. If out what Nvidia chipset you have go to Nvidia site and download and install the latest chipset drivers.