Vista - Screen won't quit flickering

Hello,
I have just installed Home Premium 32bit. All the updates are done.
i installed it on a older gateway pc with a amd 3800x2 cpu and 1g of memory. I have a onboard nivida geforce 6100 video. i have downloaded a driver from nivida but no help.

the screen doesn't flicker while typing fix but if i scoll the page it will. any suggestions would be great.

Hi poboy and welcome to Vista Forums

Your system could benefit from some upgrading. Firstly, what is the model number of your computer? You have stated that it is from Gateway, but the model number will help us to inform you how to improve its performance. I note that you have on-board graphics with only 1GB of system memory. As the graphics will share a portion of that memory, that will leave less memory for the rest of the system with the result that heavy use is being made of your page file. Since this resides on your hard disk, it is much slower than your RAM. What I suggest initially is that you increase the amount of RAM to 2GB. This will make your system more responsive, with less reliability on the paging file. However, if your system can take it, a graphics card would be beneficial. This is the main reason why I asked for your model number, so that I or someone else can suggest suitable graphics cards for you.

Gateway gt5028

Hi poboy,

Thank you for that information. Here is a link to Gateway support for your system: Gateway Support - 5876*Gateway GT5028 Media Center Computer
Clicking on the Specifications link reveals that you have a PCI-Express x 16 slot available. Here is a link to Amazon (UK) for suitable graphics cards: Amazon.co.uk: pci express graphics card - Electronics & Photo: Electronics & Photo
Here are some suggestions from Amazon:

• XFX 8400GS 256MB nVidia PCI Express Graphics Card: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo
• PALIT 512MB GEFORCE 9400GT SUPER PCI-EXPRESS GRAPHICS: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo
• Amazon.co.uk: PALIT 1GB GEFORCE 9500GT SUPER+ PCI-EXPRESS GRAPHICS CARD: Electronics & Photo
• XFX NVIDIA GF 9400GT 550M 512MB DDR2 VGA HDTV DVI: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

Have a look at these, and also at the others. Hopefully, that will help you, even if you choose to get a card from elsewhere.

Thanks Dwarf. i will check into one of those.

well after of a few hours of resting the flickering has quit for now!!!!