I have a problem with my laptop and I have tried a lot of things to figure it out.
Problem = my screen will sometimes flash on and off and to stop it I close the screen or push power to sleep/hibernate. When I reopen or power up the problem is solved. If I leave the power on the screen does not recover until I put it to sleep or power down. It happens at random times. Sometimes two or three times a week. Sometimes not for months. It's been on and off for about a year now and I have found no real pattern to recurrence.
Tests = I have performed a number of tests to try to figure out the issue.
Octane series 15.6" Intel core i7 8700k 3.7ghz 12mb cache 32gb corsair 2400mhz ddr4 (2x16) Nvidia geforce gtx 1070 oc1518mhz 8.0gb ddr5 250gb samsung evo 850 1tb seagate firecuda sshd
I have uploaded the flashing in a video if anyone would like to see it I can share the link. http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=27296723048615748241
Any ideas or help in diagnosing would be much appreciated.
Problem = my screen will sometimes flash on and off and to stop it I close the screen or push power to sleep/hibernate. When I reopen or power up the problem is solved. If I leave the power on the screen does not recover until I put it to sleep or power down. It happens at random times. Sometimes two or three times a week. Sometimes not for months. It's been on and off for about a year now and I have found no real pattern to recurrence.
Tests = I have performed a number of tests to try to figure out the issue.
- Replacing the battery. (Issue happens on battery and on normal socket power)
- voltage stabiliser at the outlet to ensure no fluctuations in power supply.
- unigene heaven benchmark and no issues.
- updated to latest Windows 10 and all latest updates.
- updated nvidia drivers to latest drivers.
- rolled back to drivers from 2 years ago.
- manually controlled the cooling fans using control center assuming the gpu and or cpu was over heating.
- ran memtest86 and it passed all 4 runs. No problems.
- I also manually opened my screen cover and fiddled with the ribbon presuming a lose connection. The issue is still there and not resolved.
- I have taken to a tech guy at a computer repair shop and it's hard to get him to fix it if it doesn't do it for weeks. Sometimes it's perfectly fine and I play games or render video, other times it does it twice in a week.
Octane series 15.6" Intel core i7 8700k 3.7ghz 12mb cache 32gb corsair 2400mhz ddr4 (2x16) Nvidia geforce gtx 1070 oc1518mhz 8.0gb ddr5 250gb samsung evo 850 1tb seagate firecuda sshd
I have uploaded the flashing in a video if anyone would like to see it I can share the link. http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=27296723048615748241
Any ideas or help in diagnosing would be much appreciated.