Blinking screen on startup.

[catattack]

I just overclocked my videocard, and it seemed to enjoy it. But I had a little problem when I was overclocking... I only went up about 20mhz on the core/memory. Now every time I start up windows and it ask me to put in my password and when I do and sign it the monitor will blankly click off then on. Everything is still fine yet I dont want that happening. I turned my mhz down to only 10mhz oc'd. Should I just let it sit?

Thanks guys!

P.S. is there a way to fix that problem? I kept gaining like 8fps for each 5mhz I went up. I wana keep trying.

[Stoo]

Looks like you've got a bit eager there..

Knock it back to stock and let it recover.
Then *slowly* up the frequencies a little at a time, and let it run for a while at that speed (longer than the 10 minutes you probably had a quick blast on UT for ), something like a few hours, then if it's okay gently increase and repeat.

If you start getting artifacts and weird occurences, back it off and leave it.

If you go at it like mad, you'll only stress it and end up with a dead card.

[Jonny M]

It's normal if you are clocking. That's the card turning off the signal, changing the clocks, then putting the signal back on again.

[WoLFe]

Yes, i got that when i over clocked my "geforce 2 mx"

[catattack]

Will this fade away till its completely gone sometime soon?

[Jonny M]

No, it just does the same thing you do when you change resolution, nothing wrong, just the screen goes black. It only does it once Windows had loaded because if anything's wrong you need to be able to get into safe mode. If you use PowerStrip and change the clock in hardware (one of the options somewhere) as opposed to software then that might fix it, but no guarantees.

[acidrainy]

Its because you have the apply at startup option ticked....

As said, your card will boot at stock speeds, once it reaches windows it will do that flash.. After the flash you will be at overclocked speeds.

Don't worry nothing dangerous about it