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Installed a new video card, screen going black on certain sites

SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGamingRegistered User regular
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I think this may be flash? Java? Something like that? On Gmail and some other sites, using my new LED monitor connected over HDMI to my new 660 Ti causes my monitor to go black. My secondary monitor still works and if I move the website over to my secondary it works fine. It was repeatable on a site yesterday in that anytime I moved the mouse the screen would black out, I would wait for a second and it would come back, repeat. Until I moved the window to the other monitor. IS this some weird HDMI conflict? Some software thing? Should I just reformat and be done with it? What the hell?

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  • PantshandshakePantshandshake Registered User regular
    Can we assume you've updated everything (drivers, flash, etc, etc, etc?)

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Removed old drivers and installed new ones when the new card got put in, I use Chrome which flash tells me is updated all the way, windows is updated and such, etc. So yeah, should be.

  • mightyjongyomightyjongyo Sour Crrm East Bay, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    Refresh rate mismatch? Make sure all nvidia settings are set to "application controlled" when possible?

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    I believe the Nvidia settings are set as such. How would I tell if it's a refresh rate mismatch? It does also only happen if the window is maximized.

  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Are you sure your power supply can handle the new card?

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    It's having zero problem running games like SRIV at full speed and max settings, I hardly think Chrome is making it draw more power than it can handle.

  • WassermeloneWassermelone Registered User regular
    edited August 2013
    As a temporary to permanent fix depending on how fixed you want it - if its a flash website this might do something - you can right click on the flash applet, go to settings and disable hardware acceleration.

    This solved some issues I was having with Youtube videos just being black after installing a new video card and I haven't ever turned the acceleration back on. I haven't had any issues since and I haven't noticed any problems with having flash not using the graphics card.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Just tried that, no dice. Sadly does not help.

  • ZxerolZxerol for the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't do so i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered User regular
    Try disabling Chrome's hardware acceleration and see if that helps. (Settings -> Show Advanced Settings -> Untick "Use hardware acceleration when available").

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    No change, unfortunately.

  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Is it only Chrome? Will the sites open in Firefox on the LED monitor?

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Well this is interesting. it may have fixed? More testing is needed, but after installing firefox, it doesn't do it anymore. In firefox OR chrome. What?

  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Chrome is bad at doing it's codecs properly lately, I've jumpstarted it's flash codecs off fox before. ( Is why it's handy to always have both even if only using one)

    Steam! Battlenet:Wisemantobes#1508
  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Hrm, still occurring. Really not sure what's happening. Happens in Firefox as well as Chrome.

  • MalgarasMalgaras Registered User regular
    If you swap the two monitors (assuming they are both hdmi), does the issue follow the monitor or does it stick with the port?

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    One is not HDMI, so I can't do that.

    If I change the "Multiple Displays" to "duplicate these displays" it doesn't do it, but then the main monitor is running at 1400x900 and it's pointless since you know, same thing on both monitors. Changing the resolution on the main to a lower res doesn't help either.

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    So after this being an off and on issue for a while, I've just gotten a new hard drive, reformatted, installed the newest drivers...and it's still happening. Is this some sort of refresh rate error? Something just wrong with the monitor? I cannot fathom the problem because some websites work, but stuff like google/youtube just refuse. I don't get it!

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    What model of monitor is it?

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    But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    It's an Acer S230HL

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    I'm also getting a lot of weird screen tearing I wasn't before the format. Maybe a different issue?

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    The only thing I've found in trying to search reports of people with similar issues was someone who found, inexplicably, that unplugging their monitor's audio cables and found that it resolved an issue where the screen was going black while trying to play flash games.

    Turning off hardware acceleration is the number one suggested fix but you've already tried that.

    "excuse my French
    But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
    - Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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