topic Re: Sometimes my laptop screen flickers on and off and then gets stuck!, in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/sometimes-my-laptop-screen-flickers-on-and-off-and-then-gets/m-p/128610#M77107 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sounds like it could be overheating<BR /><BR />what tempretures does mobilemeter give you?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:36:00 GMT kee-lo_ 2007-04-26T10:36:00Z Sometimes my laptop screen flickers on and off and then gets stuck!, https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/sometimes-my-laptop-screen-flickers-on-and-off-and-then-gets/m-p/128607#M77106 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>ok<BR />so i have a sony vaio grt716s, the one with a 17" screen <BR /><BR />anyway, recently its being a little werid<BR />once in a while the screen will flicker on and off(turns off for 1 second) and then back on again.<BR />When it does this, the mouse pointer then has like a square with purple/pink colours around it (looks as if the video card has issues?)<BR /><BR />Anyway, so basically then the computer gets stuck, and needs to be restarted (by pressing down on the power switch for a second or two).<BR /><BR /><BR />Also is there any thing to help speed up my computer besides a reformat?<BR />its starting to slow down now!! <BR /><BR />its a 2.8GHZ with 1GB RAM!!! windows xp<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:07:01 GMT https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/sometimes-my-laptop-screen-flickers-on-and-off-and-then-gets/m-p/128607#M77106 Shaggy 2007-04-25T13:07:01Z Re: Sometimes my laptop screen flickers on and off and then gets stuck!, https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/sometimes-my-laptop-screen-flickers-on-and-off-and-then-gets/m-p/128610#M77107 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sounds like it could be overheating<BR /><BR />what tempretures does mobilemeter give you?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:36:00 GMT https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/sometimes-my-laptop-screen-flickers-on-and-off-and-then-gets/m-p/128610#M77107 kee-lo_ 2007-04-26T10:36:00Z Re: Sometimes my laptop screen flickers on and off and then gets stuck!, https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/sometimes-my-laptop-screen-flickers-on-and-off-and-then-gets/m-p/128612#M77108 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote"><BR />Also is there any thing to help speed up my computer besides a reformat?<BR />its starting to slow down now!! <BR /></PRE><BR /><BR />You can run a disc clean up and then run a defrag. Also, make sure your anti spyware software is up-to-date.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:14:49 GMT https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/sometimes-my-laptop-screen-flickers-on-and-off-and-then-gets/m-p/128612#M77108 Twisted-Rizla 2007-04-26T19:14:49Z Re: Sometimes my laptop screen flickers on and off and then gets stuck!, https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/sometimes-my-laptop-screen-flickers-on-and-off-and-then-gets/m-p/128613#M77109 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>temperature is 63<BR />hdd temperature is 56<BR />charge rate is 0.08w<BR />frequency is 2.83ghz<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:27:19 GMT https://community.sony.com.mk/t5/pcs-accessories/sometimes-my-laptop-screen-flickers-on-and-off-and-then-gets/m-p/128613#M77109 Shaggy 2007-04-27T11:27:19Z