Jewelzz

I finally installed Vista B2 but damn does my monitor flicker like a bitch, I assume it's my drivers. Anyone else have any issues like this?

I have AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core, 4200+, NVIDIA GeForce 6100.

Electronic Punk

Did you try the NVIDIA Vista drivers Jewelzz?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_88.61.html

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Jewelzz

No I didn't. I'm running XP and Vista on one PC, dual boot, will those drivers mess with my XP partition?

Electronic Punk

No more than throwing Vista on would

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kcnychief

Drivers are independent to the OS, in the sense that drivers loaded within Vista would only apply when in Vista, and drivers loaded within XP would only load within XP, etc.

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Jewelzz

I'll give it a go then, thanks

kcnychief

Good luck

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iamtaylormade

Good Luck getting those drivers installed. I have tried numerous times, following directions from different locations on the net. No good....
My monitor also fickers (bottom right corner). The Nvidia drivers will not "automatically" load or load through the setup (32/64bit). I have even tried to manually copy and paste after expanding the Nvidia file and digging into the "driver(s)" folder. No Luck. I can use both monitors but cannot get the Nvidia drivers to load so I can independently control each monitor. The "personalize" is not cutting it.

If anyone else knows a way, I'd be game to try.

Alienware A51, 2GB OCZ, 3.0GHz Intel P4, Gforce 5600 Ultra/128MB, Dual Monitor, blah, blah, blah...

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LeeJend

Jewelzz - this is basic but I'll ask anyway. Have you checked the refresh rate? Even with primitive drivers it should be an option under display- settings-advanced-monitor. 70Hz or higher is desirable.

Sometimes they default to 60Hz when you do an install.

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Jewelzz

No I haven't LeeJend, I'll do that over the weekend. Have to work tomorrow and don't get much time to do anything those days. Thanks for the input

kcnychief

Not really my area of expertise, but doesn't turning the refresh rate too high damage the hardware?

I know 70 isn't high, but the way you put it "70Hz or higher is desireable" could lead someone to believe using the highest their hardware can support is best.

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napalmnthemorning

I was thinking the same thing LeeJend when I started reading the thread. I ran into same problem a while back with refresh rate with Suse 10 getting the flickering. Lowered the refresh rate to 60 and no more problems.