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Offline Nemesis6

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Need help: Screen flickers on startup
Alright, this is gonna be kind of hard to explain, but I'll make it quick:
I bought this PC like half a year ago. When I first got it, it had a weird problem with the screen turning on and off, cycling between Analog and Digital for like 15 minutes after being started from a cold boot. Then, after finding out that a lot of fans were disabled in the tower, I worked on enabling some of them. After I did that, the screen the no longer flickered, but apparently, I messed up some of the cooling, because after that, the computer would get like intolerably noisy, like a air-conditioning fan was blowing every time I played a 3d-intense game. So one day my brother came along and looked at it. Apparently, in my attempt to get the other fans working, I had wired them to a weaker power cable or something. That was fixed, as we managed to install two completely new, bigger fans in both the front and the back of the computer -- Now it's absolutely tolerable, even under increased load, but now the screen cycling has returned. It will happen after a cold boot, or after resuming operation after having entered sleep-mode. Once it's gone, restarting the computer, it starts up just fine. It doesn't matter whether the screen is turned on or off.

I wonder if this could be the powersupply just being ****, but before messing with that, I figured I'd see if you guys had had any similar experiences.

Specs:
CPU - I-760
GPU - 480GTX
Motherboard - Gigabyte P55-USB3
RAM - 8 GBs
PSU: 1000W (some cheap brand... yeah, I know)

It's still under warranty I think, so sending it back is always a possibility.

 
Re: Need help: Screen flickers on startup
Just off the top of my head, I'd suggest updating the BIOS. When I bought my Gigabyte motherboard it had a problem with one of the PCI-e slots and a BIOS update cleared it right up.

  
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It will happen after a cold boot, or after resuming operation after having entered sleep-mode. Once it's gone, restarting the computer, it starts up just fine. It doesn't matter whether the screen is turned on or off.

= PSU caps dying. And the psu fan was probably the cause of the noise before, maybe because one of the rails was overloaded, maybe because it was on borrowed time from the factory.
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