The screen flickers, how?

Question

Video cards

When reinstalling Windows XP, the screen began to flicker. Blinking usually starts when you turn on the video player or skype. At first I sinned on the assembly of Windows, but reinstalling to another did not help. It even got worse. Installed video drivers from the manufacturer's website, installed fresh K-Lite codecs. I set the frequency to 70 and 72 (maximum at its highest resolution), reset the CMOS memory. This is not a monitor, because. when connected to a netbook, it does not blink. Probably a video card, but it's embarrassing that during the last reinstallation, the installation of codecs got rid of blinking when playing video, but blinking appeared when making a Skype call. Now after installing another Windows, the blinking became more frequent. I think to put Fedora and see how it will behave with Linux. Has anyone had such an experience?
I recognized the video by the device instance code: NVIDIA GForse mx 5500,
CPU: Athlon 64 2000+
Memory: 512 MB DDR PC 3200

Answer 1

Try another video card, I had a similar problem when it overheated.

Answer 2

UPD: Demolished the driver completely. Now it doesn’t blink when movies are turned on, but you yourself understand what a detrimental image quality, jumps, etc., when the video driver is not installed.

Answer 3

The problem is most likely with the drivers. I also observed this before on the GF7800 GS - blinking occurred at the time of initialization of the overlay. I don't remember how it was decided. I installed other driver roofing felts, or some checkboxes in rivatuner or a similar program.
it may also be related to the second monitor / TV-out

Answer 4

clean up all the remnants of the drivers and put WHQL
to boot from the LiveCD and check the cause of the failure

Answer 5

got some remission by turning off the overlay: start, run, dxdiag, turn off directdraw.