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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
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- 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 6th, 2007 20:00
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