Hello, I would appreciate it if someone could assist me with the following issue:
It's been a while since I started having this issue, but I have always thought it was just because the hot weather and I have no A/C, so the graphics card gets hot quicker. Although I do not game much, other than League of Legends and some light gaming.
However, the problem was: ever since ~July my computer screen has been flickering green (the entire screen). At first the screen only flickers once every few hours of usage, and after 1~2 months the screen gradually started to flicker more and more intensively for a few seconds, and eventually returns to normal.
So I did some troubleshooting:
I updated my graphics driver
I reinstalled my graphics driver
I reinstalled windows
All seem to fix the problem for a few days, then the problem would start again. I also tried revert driver updates, still same problem.
So I swapped the HDMI cable. Here it gets a bit interesting.
The green flickering stopped. However, now I would see small patches of black with green squiggles on the screen occasionally when I alt+tab between windows, or randomly when I watch YouTube videos or simply look at photos or images. This is shown in the attached image. Sometimes it's green lines and sometimes it's green dots.
IMAGE: https://imgur.com/a/J9cUHZk
This issue does not seem to happen when I play games, only happens on desktop.
My setup:
Monitor: HP Pavilion 23cw (2 years old~ 1 year screen on time)
Graphics Card: Sapphire Nitro+ OC RX480 4GB
CPU: INTEL i5 6500
RAM: 8GB
HDD/SSD: 1TB WD Blue and 500GB MX500 Crucial SSD
OS: Windows 10 Home 64Bit
Right now my suspicions are either the monitor is going bad or the graphics card. I checked the graphics card for dusts, but I barely see any and I recently cleaned it with air duster. I don't know if this is normal, but just by having 2-3 Chrome tabs open it consumes 50+% of my ram.
Please help me narrow this issue down for me, because I do not have the budget to upgrade multiple components.
Thank you so much for your time!
Jay
It's been a while since I started having this issue, but I have always thought it was just because the hot weather and I have no A/C, so the graphics card gets hot quicker. Although I do not game much, other than League of Legends and some light gaming.
However, the problem was: ever since ~July my computer screen has been flickering green (the entire screen). At first the screen only flickers once every few hours of usage, and after 1~2 months the screen gradually started to flicker more and more intensively for a few seconds, and eventually returns to normal.
So I did some troubleshooting:
I updated my graphics driver
I reinstalled my graphics driver
I reinstalled windows
All seem to fix the problem for a few days, then the problem would start again. I also tried revert driver updates, still same problem.
So I swapped the HDMI cable. Here it gets a bit interesting.
The green flickering stopped. However, now I would see small patches of black with green squiggles on the screen occasionally when I alt+tab between windows, or randomly when I watch YouTube videos or simply look at photos or images. This is shown in the attached image. Sometimes it's green lines and sometimes it's green dots.
IMAGE: https://imgur.com/a/J9cUHZk
This issue does not seem to happen when I play games, only happens on desktop.
My setup:
Monitor: HP Pavilion 23cw (2 years old~ 1 year screen on time)
Graphics Card: Sapphire Nitro+ OC RX480 4GB
CPU: INTEL i5 6500
RAM: 8GB
HDD/SSD: 1TB WD Blue and 500GB MX500 Crucial SSD
OS: Windows 10 Home 64Bit
Right now my suspicions are either the monitor is going bad or the graphics card. I checked the graphics card for dusts, but I barely see any and I recently cleaned it with air duster. I don't know if this is normal, but just by having 2-3 Chrome tabs open it consumes 50+% of my ram.
Please help me narrow this issue down for me, because I do not have the budget to upgrade multiple components.
Thank you so much for your time!
Jay
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