JamesRoberts
03-09-2012 11:10 AM (6 days ago)
Hi,

I've had my HP Pavilion G6 for nearly half a year now. I've recently started experiencing random horizontal flickering across my screen. It only seems to occur 5% of the time I use the laptop, and its usually either whilst playing a game or watching flash video. I had it just a moment ago playing Race Driver GRID. The game runs fine, and then freezes (audio continues) whilst some flickering occurs at the top of the screen, and then when it stop, the game suddenly continues! Its rendered playing Race Driver GRID impossible! :(

Since I discovered this issue, I purchased some more ram for the machine (an extra 2GB, the correct type and speed) just because I wanted to max it out, and the screen flicker happens constantly and violently with the new ram in. When I remove the new ram, it goes back to just when I watch youtube videos sometimes (most of the time its fine) or when I play games sometimes.

I suspect it is a driver issue, as I never experience it when reformatting and I don't have the video driver installed yet. Also, I take care of my laptop, and the flicker doesnt happen when the screen is titled at all! However, if it is a driver issue, I still don't understand why it would be caused 100% more so by adding more ram! :S I've read over posts of similar problems with no results, and people say HP support don't help at all and try and get you to pay silly money for a repair that isn't caused by you!

So if anymore can help me or anything, that would be great! I've tried all different drivers, and I still get it, however with no driver, it runs fine! But I need the drivers to play my games and have windows Aero (I like the look of aero :P)

Thanks !
James
:)

Pavilion G6 1232SA - AMD E2-3000M 1.8Ghz with Radeon HD 6380G, 4GB DDR3 Ram, Windows 7 Pro x64