Screen flicker and BIOS issue

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Fawad Shaiq

Fawad Shaiq

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Hi,

I have a HP Pavilion 15cs3065st. The hard drive failed so I used a USB drive to download windows 11 and reinstall on a new SSD.

However now, once windows loads, the screen begins to flicker and even go blank for seconds at a time before reappearing. All my drivers and windows are up to date.

I restarted my computer and went into BIOS and selected "load default settings", save and then reboot. When I do this everything works great, no more screen flicker. But after the computer goes to sleep and wakes the flicker starts again. The only way to fix it is to restore the default settings in BIOS again. I turned off automatic windows updates but that didn't help.

Thank you!
 
Fawad Shaiq said:
Hi,

I have a HP Pavilion 15cs3065st. The hard drive failed so I used a USB drive to download windows 11 and reinstall on a new SSD.

However now, once windows loads, the screen begins to flicker and even go blank for seconds at a time before reappearing. All my drivers and windows are up to date.

I restarted my computer and went into BIOS and selected "load default settings", save and then reboot. When I do this everything works great, no more screen flicker. But after the computer goes to sleep and wakes the flicker starts again. The only way to fix it is to restore the default settings in BIOS again. I turned off automatic windows updates but that didn't help.

Thank you!
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Have you installed the Windows 10 drivers from HP &/or official sources - Intel etc? Have you checked for a BIOS update? There’s one dated Dec 2023.

Did you wish to clean install Windows? If the old drive is still booting then you could clone or image the old drive then restore it to the new drive.
 
See my canned info below;

Once Windows has been clean installed you must then install first the MBs chipset drivers then the storage/SATA drivers and third the graphics drivers, the drivers can either come from a disk provided by the motherboard manufacturer ** or downloaded from their site and saved to a flash drive etc, this is a must and Windows should not be allowed to check for updates before it has been done as more often than not Windows installs the wrong drivers or in the incorrect order and this can cause all sorts of problems.

The reason why this procedure is so important, the chipset is what enables the MB to be able to communicate with all the hardware + are the first drivers that Windows looks for on boot.

** For OEM computers/notebooks such as Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo etc you must only download drivers from their support page, OEMs may sometimes redirect users to a third party site such as AMD or Nvidea to obtain the latest drivers for their GPUs, this tends to be for high end gaming notebooks and desktops though.
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Because there are no Windows 11 drivers for your computer you should have done the above using the Windows 10 drivers that are provided by HP and because you haven't you are encountering the very problems mentioned above.
 
Being that the OP revisited the forum but chose not to acknowledge my reply this thread will be closed.
 
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