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    Flickering screen

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by Mkkillah, Sep 10, 2016.

  1. Mkkillah

    Mkkillah Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi Guys,

    I just arrived at a LAN party and since then the screen that I connected randomly flashes/flickers once every 30-120 minutes. It flickers like it would when switching to inboard graphics. black - distortion - black - extremely short white flash - black and back to normal. Once it didn't come back and the laptop screen was black too.


    What is going on?
     
    Mkkillah, Sep 10, 2016
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    Scanner Notebook Deity

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    Sounds like you may have knocked something loose in transport. Or, really bad I was getting a flickering screen right before one of my cards went dead.
     
    Scanner, Sep 17, 2016
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    Sorry for the late reply. The external screen itself is dead. Thank god!
     
    Mkkillah, Sep 24, 2016
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