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April 6th, 2007 20:00

Inspiron E1705 flickering and refresh rate

ok i've read the post left by this guy and the replies to them....now i have the exact same screen 17 inch UltraSharp Trulife Wide-screen WUXGA and the highest video card allowed for this model laptop (well highest everything allowed for this model except the 677 mhz 2GB memory and at the highest resolution when i minimize lets say internet explorer then i click on it again to maximize it the video flickers...ok i called dell they said they never came across a problem like this and kept goin back to it being the vista OS....i talked to my uncle and he mentioned the refresh rate...now i went to search at the start menu for refresh rate and found it...it said that if that at the highest resolution on high end video cards the refresh rate should be at 75 hertz to stop the flickering...now like the gentlemen before said theres only one option and thats 60 hertz...so i now have it set at a lower resolution because i got tired of the flickering...now dell still hasnt gotten back to me with a solution...so i was wondering like this other guy doesnt anyone know a way to fix this?? (i also have all the current drivers for all the hardware)
 
thanx for any input on this


Message Edited by Mlynn0587 on 04-06-2007 04:04 PM
  • kirkd

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    Posted April 6th, 2007 20:00

    Dell knows about the problem, but who knows when they will issue an updated driver and whether they will fix it.
     
    A solution is to go to Settings in the Advanced tab of System Properties and in Visual Effects, deselect " Animate windows when minimizing or maximizing". Should have no problems at amximum resolution. Losing the animation is no big deal.
     
    Dimension 9100, Win XP, 3.0 GHz P4, 2 GB DDR2 533 MHz RAM, 160 GB SATA II Samsung, 300 GB SATA II Seagate, 250 GB SimpleTech USB (WD Drive), Nvidia Go 6800 (425/825 MHz), Dell 1901 FP UltraSharp

    Inspiron E1705, Win Vista Premium, T7200 Core 2 Duo (4MB, 2.0 GHz 667MHz), 2 GB DDR2 677 MHz RAM, 2 GB Transcend 150X SD ReadyBoost, 120 GB Samsung HD, Nvidia Go 7900 GS, 17” Sharp UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-Screen WUXGA
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    Posted April 6th, 2007 21:00

    Thank you so much....but thats a down i liked the way that opened and closed....so theres nothing to fix that yet? and is it only on this model laptop?
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    Posted April 6th, 2007 21:00

    Probably any Vista portable. I think I saw a post for an XPS with the GO 7900 GS having the same issue. Others are having flicker problems running some games.
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    Posted April 6th, 2007 21:00

    well thank you so much, i need to let my uncle know this now cause his career is in computers and he didnt know that one...so is it even a refresh rate issue then? cause it says that it should be at 75 Hz but only has a selection of 60Hz
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    Posted April 6th, 2007 22:00

    They were talking about the refresh rate for CRT monitors. Higher is better to prevent streaking. For LCDs, the pixels are more persistent than CRTs, so high refresh rates are not necessary. The rate used should be the rate specified by the manufacturer, which is almost always 60 Hz. Interestingly, my E1705 defaults to 59 Hz.
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    Posted April 7th, 2007 00:00

    Oh I see...yeah I missed dells call today it was regarding this matter....hmm..wonder what they are going to say....well thanx again...i appriciate the help on this one