Bottom Half of screen flickered today
I bought a refurbished Acer G257HU smidpx 25" from Acer Re certified website and it worked well in the 11 days of use but today the bottom half of the screen flickered so I had to restart the monitor for it to get fixed. Should I return the monitor or is it normal for this to happen?
January 23, 2017
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@despair:
The picture shows it's definitely a software problem and not a hardware problem I had previously assumed.
A graphics driver may solve it though if it does not, then your computer's graphic output is just not very smart when it comes to switching between different resolutions.
@burning:
Update: http://imgur.com/a/tLjyL
Happened again today after once again alt+tab from Maple to Desktop so I took a picture of how it looks. Switching user and singing in again fixed it so should I assume Maple causes it?
@despair:
Maplestory? No.
@burning: Might be since my table is shaky. Just hope it's not a monitor problem since I was debating if I should get a 1080p or 1440p but picked 1440p even tho it's double the price and I don't wanna end up regretting that.
off-topic: do you play the game?
@despair:
The monitor cable probably got loose.
@burning: When I restarted the monitor it worked completely normal. I don't know if it matters but I'm using a laptop as a desktop and on windows 10 so I don't know if this has to do with compatibility as I was alt+tab from Maple to desktop when it happened.
@despair:
Have the vertical lines reappeared since?
@burning:
It looked like this but only for bottom half :
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q19/lost989/fault4.jpg
What does flicker mean here?
Is it flashing, not synced (tearing), frozen?