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8790 WINXP Flickering Problem?

post #1 of 27
4/26/04 at 9:13pm
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The flickering problem just started today. I boot up the laptop and once Winxp main screen is on, the flickering starts. I uninstalled and reinstalled the ATI drivers without any success. I loaded the BIOS screen just to make sure the flickering wasn't hardware related and indeed it is not. I uninstalled and reinstalled WINXP two days ago but the flickering just started today. I am going to reinstall WINXP yet again and see what happens.....

ANY SUGGESTIONS ARE MORE THEN WELCOMED.....

Thank you

Jules
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post #2 of 27
4/26/04 at 10:00pm
What driver are you installing?
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post #3 of 27
4/27/04 at 12:28am
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well, first it started flickering under the latest OMEGA driver which I uninstalled. I reverted back to the one that came with the laptop and it still kept on flickering.

Jules
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post #4 of 27
5/9/04 at 9:31pm
mine does that too at the first boot up
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post #5 of 27
5/11/04 at 12:35am
Mine flickered once today while it was running. Nothing to do with boot up.

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post #6 of 27
5/11/04 at 1:04am
Mine does that. Sager will repair it, but I'm using this laptop for Oracle/.Net experimentation for the moment, so I can't really send it back.

I can turn down the brightness by ONE and it stops flickering. If I turn it up to its highest setting (pressing Fn+F9 ONE TIME), the flickering begins. I just keep it down for now and it's fine.

Perhaps I will send the computer in for repairs later. Sager asked me to shoot a video of this flickering, but it's too fast for the video part of my digital camera.

I suggest sending it in for repairs if you aren't doing anything important with the computer. Go ahead and ghost your HDD just in case. Tell me how the repair goes.
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post #7 of 27
5/13/04 at 1:07am
I have flickering problem when I use battery power. I have to lower brightness too.
There is a poll now about 8790 screen flickering issue.
I think it could meaning a big number of recall for sager.
It is general issue even happen on 8890. And it usually happen after one month of useage. Hope someon work for sager can tell us what's gonna happen to flickering machine.
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post #8 of 27
5/13/04 at 12:23pm
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due to the fact that I'm using the laptop for work, I couldn't send it in. The flickering still happens at a regular basis and when it does happen i move the screen back and forth and usually it takes care of the problem. I cannot but assume that this problem will get worse with time.

SAGER 8790, 3.4Ghz,1024GRAM, 60.00Gigs had drive, One dead pixel close to the center of the screen.
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post #9 of 27
5/15/04 at 5:38am
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Originally Posted by Jules_74
I cannot but assume that this problem will get worse with time.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm HOPING that my one-time flicker was just that and that it won't get worse (here's to hopeful thinking!) My problem in sending my unit back is that I'm in Japan, so it's not like it's an easy fix. Hopefully you can get something arranged so that you can get your unit fixed.
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post #10 of 27
5/23/04 at 9:05pm
FriedToast, didn't you have issues with UPS one time about getting your laptop? I'd hate to see you have to send it back to the USA and chance another run-in with UPS. Better us than you with this respect.
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post #11 of 27
6/2/04 at 3:54am
I've got the Clevo version of this same laptop, and have been having the same flickering problems. My computer is only 1 week old and was pretty much doing it from about the 3rd day I had it. It's not a Windows issue because I've seen it during boot and also while I was in the BIOS.

For me, it only happens at full brightness setting on the display, and notching down one level seems to make it go away. It comes and goes, and sometimes it will be several hours of working just fine and then it will start flickering.

After getting back from BC yesterday afternoon, it seemed like the flickering went away... I used it several hours last night and several more today, and no flickering under AC power except for one small flicker when the fan kicks into high speed or shuts off. Then, I loaded up several audio apps and had them looping endlessly for a while to get the machine heated up a bit more, and still no flickers under AC, but when I switch to battery power and put the screen at full brightness it just flickered endlessly. Taking the brightness down just one step would make it stop.

I'll probably just send it back and get it replaced if this is a known problem with these computers.
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post #12 of 27
6/2/04 at 8:10am
kaine, my UPS issue was dealing w/ customs. They definitely dropped the ball, IMO, in how it was dealt with. If my unit ever has to go back, it's not going to be via UPS. And that's too bad in a way, because I've pushed and pushed for UPS seeing as I've worked for them twice previously for a total of about 5 yrs. I'm allergic to bad customer service, though.
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post #13 of 27
6/14/04 at 11:03am

Flicker - and not the Horse

Well I have also started to get a "flicker". It is intermittent - just comes and goes. I have had mine for about 3 months now and it started doing it just about a week ago. I virtually always run on AC. Reason I came on the site this morning was becasue it was flickering and I wanted to see if there was a solution.
I'll give the "brightness" setting a check and see what happens.
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post #14 of 27
6/14/04 at 5:43pm
i get a wierd scrambled flicker up at windows boot into desktop, but i think thats just my omega drivers, that and a flicker out of games, try.. reinstalling your video card? it might redetect it on startup and reconfig it, but do it only if you have experiance with windows and drivers x.x
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post #15 of 27
6/19/04 at 4:19pm
Darn!

I just started getting the flickering problem, too. Just briefly, then it stopped. Didn't have to turn the brightness down, just stopped. That is really annoying because up to this point this computer was the bomb. Well, it still is, this flickering just makes me nervous.

And as with all of you, I can't really send it back for repairs at the moment. Actually, I wonder if Sager has to repair it, would they give you the new WSXGA screen, or just the same WXGA?

Maybe the flickering has to do with certain screen positions? IE, maybe the connectivity is bad?
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post #16 of 27
6/20/04 at 12:48am
as in a post I recently made, Mine flickers after being 'pressed' on the left speaker or around it. It will continue to flicker until I press around a bit more or move the screen forward backward. Definitely hardware problem, just wish "I" could fix it myself. I'd rather not let it outta my sight.
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post #17 of 27
7/20/04 at 5:27pm
Thread Starter 

update on flickering issue

As I expected the flickering problem with the screen got worth. Not only the 8790 flickers but sometimes I also lose some brightness. Before, when it flickered I used to move the screen back and forth and it used to take care of it but now I have to turn down the brightness in order for it to stop. I still can’t send it in and I need all the brightness available due to the type of work I do on it.
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post #18 of 27
7/21/04 at 11:40am

Flickering

I had the flickering problem on my 8790 about a week after I got it. I originally thought it was because of the omegas since it started not long after I installed them. Sager told me to turn down the brightness one notch and play games at a resolution above 800x600. Neither worked and they told me it had to be sent back. I think they replaced the motherboard since my network card's MAC address changed. Now it works great.
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post #19 of 27
8/11/04 at 3:51pm
Just got this back from Sager tech support...not too encouraging. It seems they don't want to support running the laptop at full brightness.

Just drop one scale from the max brightness to stop the flickerring.
Upgrade to WSXGA+ is $695 + shipping , include chang ethe new screenm video
cable inverter board.
and we keep the old screen ( under working condition )
the inverter boasrd control the voltage to the lcd back lite, so when the
brighness set to the MAX, then th einverter board will become unstale, so
not recommand to set to the MAX.
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post #20 of 27
8/11/04 at 4:54pm
Remember this quote:
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Originally Posted by Wytworm
Doh! I ordered last thursday and all i got was this lousy...well nothing really! I heard it might ship Monday and then I heard it might ship yesterday. Got no email with tracking number. Got no email to even confirm they had received the payment. So:

Either it shipped and the notification is lost
It didnt ship for some reason unknown to all.

No one seems to know what will happen or when.

I wonder if PCTorque does anything aside from ordering the machines in bulk from sager then whipping them around to us.
I think that Sager's response is pure BS. I'd get with PC Torque (or your reseller if it was not PC Torque) and demand that this be fixed.

This reminds me of the Marx Brother's Doctor skit. "It hurts when I do this" - "Well, then, don't do it anymore". Kind of like, if you car shakes at speeds over 30mph - don't go that fast. The machine has specs and it should meet those specs or be repaired/replaced. That is what the warranty is for - faulty construction. Max setting for brightness is the default setting when the laptop is on AC Power. It does drop two notches when on DC power, however, mine works at Max brightness - even on batteries. I think that they are just trying to get you to buy the new screen rather than fix it for free under the terms of the warranty.
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