Youtube(flash) kills display

[Lutine]

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The second I popped open a flash video from Youtube, BAM, the video display for my second monitor was killed above. If I removed the connection physically, that artifacting would go onto my main monitor. This was a one-off thing, I can't reproduce for now. Anything to worry about? Taking a Printscrn doesn't show anything.

 

Windows 7 Ultimate

Core i5 3570K @ stock

8GB RAM

XFX 7850 OC to 1050MHz, RAM 1450MHz. Stable for the past month and a half.

 

Interestingly, speedfan had the GPU fan at 0% and -999C, with CCC showing 55C, which is unusual because the fan is usually 20% and shows a correct temp. I jumped from the original DVD rom drivers to the latest CCC last week.

[blove]

Using a 24" and a 19" my 5870 would occasionally artifact during Flash video playback and would often flicker. It was cycling quickly between a high and a low power state. Editing the BIOS so that the memory would not underclock when the states changed cleared it up for me. Not sure if the same applies to you, but it is a place to start looking.

[fms1]

I got a BSOD from Adobe Flash player (the first one I've had since Win98, and I've used NT, XP, Vista, and 7 since), to be fair, I partially caused it to crash by skipping ahead rapidly, but Adobe was DLing update when it happened. Applied that update and have had one update since (the one with the Mcafee crap). My PC is ok after a complete reboot, but that really put my undies in a serious twist.

[Vagrant0]

to the latest CCC last week.

That's your problem right there...

 

The last several updates have been utter crap. I think the most recent stable version was 12.1. If you're needing something more recent than that, your best bet is to find some safe 3rd party drivers.