Flickering Monitor (Samsung, maybe others too…)

An article by Adam    No Comments

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been experiencing problems with my new Samsung P2450H monitor whereby, when plugged into my laptop (D-SUB) and viewing pages with dark or gradient backgrounds, the monitor would flicker horizontal lines across the screen. Re-calibrating and adjusting the refresh rate didn’t help at all.

I was happy enough to ignore it at first until, finally, it became too much.

After hunting around for a solution, I found this page which contained a post that suggested a remedy that, at first, I thought was a joke. Then I tried it…

Please Try This.

Probably you have connected your Laptop as well as your External Monitor to the same Power Source.

This causes some interference and results in flickering.

Just disconnect either your laptop or the External Monitor and coneect it to another Power switch.

Or try running your laptop on battery.

Then see what happens.

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And it worked! Strange.

Anyway, thought I’d share the solution to help potentially many other people with similar issues.

I might try and do some web-related posts soon.