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Win10 Flashing Screen - Me & 826 other people. You?

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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    I've got a set of DOS floppies in the cupboard if you need them?

    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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    Mycroft Holmes
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    You need to move house - you have been living in that one way too long. We are moving out of our Singapore apartment and the junk we have hoarded is just ridiculous and that is only after 6 years, and not a floppy anywhere to be seen.

    Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

      I've got a set of DOS floppies in the cupboard if you need them?

      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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      Munchies_Matt
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      What was the last windows OS that cam eon floppies? 95 wasnt it? I remember having about 30 disks and having t put them in one at a time every ten minutes or so. God it took ages! Mind you, I had to update the firmware because of an issue with a disk on a particular machine a few years back and had to do it via a floppy. Could I find one? Took hours of digging around! :)

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        What was the last windows OS that cam eon floppies? 95 wasnt it? I remember having about 30 disks and having t put them in one at a time every ten minutes or so. God it took ages! Mind you, I had to update the firmware because of an issue with a disk on a particular machine a few years back and had to do it via a floppy. Could I find one? Took hours of digging around! :)

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        OriginalGriff
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        Windows floppy[^] I don't even own a floppy drive any more! :laugh:

        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
        "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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        • M Munchies_Matt

          What was the last windows OS that cam eon floppies? 95 wasnt it? I remember having about 30 disks and having t put them in one at a time every ten minutes or so. God it took ages! Mind you, I had to update the firmware because of an issue with a disk on a particular machine a few years back and had to do it via a floppy. Could I find one? Took hours of digging around! :)

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          den2k88
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          Windows 95, first edition. 27 floppies, I still have them. With the backups.

          DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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            Windows 95, first edition. 27 floppies, I still have them. With the backups.

            DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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            OriginalGriff
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            MS Office 97 Professional came on 55 floppies! :omg:

            General failure reading Drive A:
            Please insert disk 54 and press any key

            Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
            "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              MS Office 97 Professional came on 55 floppies! :omg:

              General failure reading Drive A:
              Please insert disk 54 and press any key

              Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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              den2k88
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              OMFG! Well, I was convinced of having Office 97 for at least 10 years before discovering it was actually Office95... A good product nonetheless.

              DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                Windows floppy[^] I don't even own a floppy drive any more! :laugh:

                Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                Jorgen Andersson
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                I even have a 5 1/4 on the attic.

                Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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                • R raddevus

                  When I updated to Win10 Anniversary edition my Toshiba S55t laptop (i7, 8GB with touchscreen) started flashing and flickering. It's really quite terrible at times. I found the following link where 826 other people have reported the problem on various manufacturer's computers. Maybe you'll want to report yours there too. Windows 10 flashing screen - Microsoft Community[^]

                  My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                  Rob Philpott
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                  I think I have the same issue started since AE, but then I had it before - this is on a Lenovo yoga pro thingy. Now if only I could remember the cure. Something to do with Intel graphics chip/driver and power saving functions I think. Try turning all that off.

                  Regards, Rob Philpott.

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                  • R raddevus

                    When I updated to Win10 Anniversary edition my Toshiba S55t laptop (i7, 8GB with touchscreen) started flashing and flickering. It's really quite terrible at times. I found the following link where 826 other people have reported the problem on various manufacturer's computers. Maybe you'll want to report yours there too. Windows 10 flashing screen - Microsoft Community[^]

                    My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                    W Balboos GHB
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                    <required_answer> The problem is most easily remedied by avoiding Win10. Actually, in a new embrace of honesty in presenting their product, it has been renamed: Win5/Lose5   Ver: if.your.are.lucky I've also learned that the manager of the department division in charge of updates has now been more appropriately titled:   Head Croupier. </required_answer>

                    Ravings en masse^

                    "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                    "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                    • R Rob Philpott

                      I think I have the same issue started since AE, but then I had it before - this is on a Lenovo yoga pro thingy. Now if only I could remember the cure. Something to do with Intel graphics chip/driver and power saving functions I think. Try turning all that off.

                      Regards, Rob Philpott.

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                      Mike Diack
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                      I had similar on my Lenovo Z50, but it was much worse with the RTM release 10240 in Summer 2015. (It used to occur maybe once every 1-2 hours) Upgrading the NVIDIA and Intel (dual graphics card) drivers have almost completely cured the problem both on the RTM release and then when it re-appeared with AE.

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                      • R raddevus

                        When I updated to Win10 Anniversary edition my Toshiba S55t laptop (i7, 8GB with touchscreen) started flashing and flickering. It's really quite terrible at times. I found the following link where 826 other people have reported the problem on various manufacturer's computers. Maybe you'll want to report yours there too. Windows 10 flashing screen - Microsoft Community[^]

                        My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                        Mark_Wallace
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                        Look, you've got baby blocks, you've got the ribbon, you've got persistent transmissions of your personal information being sent to "help improve your experience", and you've got unstoppable destructive updates of a thousand things you don't want! Why the Hell should you expect an operating system to allow you to use your computer hardware, when you've got all that? If you can't use your monitor, if you can't use your mouse, if you can't see stuff in multi-byte fonts (and therefore can't copy it out for translation), if your network connections keep getting borked, if the programs you use to make your living keep hanging, if you're being slowly blinded by having to look at black text on a white background, if you can't tell where one window ends and the next one starts, if all your personal settings keep resetting to god-awful defaults, etc, etc, etc: STOP WHINING! You've got the Best! Windows! Ever! You should be grateful!

                        I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                        • M Munchies_Matt

                          I have an XP install I can give you if you want. :)

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                          raddevus
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                          Munchies_Matt wrote:

                          I have an XP install I can give you if you want

                          But, this is... The Year of the LINUX DESKTOP!!!! :laugh:

                          My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                          • R Rob Philpott

                            I think I have the same issue started since AE, but then I had it before - this is on a Lenovo yoga pro thingy. Now if only I could remember the cure. Something to do with Intel graphics chip/driver and power saving functions I think. Try turning all that off.

                            Regards, Rob Philpott.

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                            raddevus
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                            Rob Philpott wrote:

                            Lenovo yoga pro thingy.

                            Yes, you probably do. I saw someone with that exact hardware posted to message board at the original link.

                            My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                            • W W Balboos GHB

                              <required_answer> The problem is most easily remedied by avoiding Win10. Actually, in a new embrace of honesty in presenting their product, it has been renamed: Win5/Lose5   Ver: if.your.are.lucky I've also learned that the manager of the department division in charge of updates has now been more appropriately titled:   Head Croupier. </required_answer>

                              Ravings en masse^

                              "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                              "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                              raddevus
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                              W∴ Balboos wrote:

                              easily remedied by avoiding Win10.

                              I don't know how easy it is to avoid. :) Also, that is honestly the posted answer -- revert back to Win7 or wherever you came from, it says. Riiiiiight.

                              My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                              • M Mark_Wallace

                                Look, you've got baby blocks, you've got the ribbon, you've got persistent transmissions of your personal information being sent to "help improve your experience", and you've got unstoppable destructive updates of a thousand things you don't want! Why the Hell should you expect an operating system to allow you to use your computer hardware, when you've got all that? If you can't use your monitor, if you can't use your mouse, if you can't see stuff in multi-byte fonts (and therefore can't copy it out for translation), if your network connections keep getting borked, if the programs you use to make your living keep hanging, if you're being slowly blinded by having to look at black text on a white background, if you can't tell where one window ends and the next one starts, if all your personal settings keep resetting to god-awful defaults, etc, etc, etc: STOP WHINING! You've got the Best! Windows! Ever! You should be grateful!

                                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                                raddevus
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                                Mark_Wallace wrote:

                                You should be grateful!

                                ....That it's finally the YEAR of the LINUX DESKTOP!!!! I am. I am. :laugh: :laugh:

                                My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                  Windows floppy[^] I don't even own a floppy drive any more! :laugh:

                                  Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                                  Lost User
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                                  Why are you calling "Save" icon a floppy?!? ;)

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                                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                    Windows floppy[^] I don't even own a floppy drive any more! :laugh:

                                    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                                    dandy72
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                                    OriginalGriff wrote:

                                    I don't even own a floppy drive any more!

                                    I have an external 3.5" USB floppy drive I salvaged from a friend's dead laptop. No driver needed, and it works with new systems/OSes. :thumbsup: 5.25" floppies, however, would be a problem. Maybe if I fold them...

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                                    • R raddevus

                                      When I updated to Win10 Anniversary edition my Toshiba S55t laptop (i7, 8GB with touchscreen) started flashing and flickering. It's really quite terrible at times. I found the following link where 826 other people have reported the problem on various manufacturer's computers. Maybe you'll want to report yours there too. Windows 10 flashing screen - Microsoft Community[^]

                                      My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                                      Andreas Mertens
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                                      I have the same problem on my Dell XPS 17. It has two video processors: - Intel HD Graphics 3000 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M After the upgrade (?? :sigh: ), if I have my Sony Bravia plugged in via HDMI, some Win Store apps will flicker like mad. Other apps are fine, and if I just use the laptop screen everything is fine. I hope this gets addressed soon... :mad:

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                                      • R raddevus

                                        Munchies_Matt wrote:

                                        I have an XP install I can give you if you want

                                        But, this is... The Year of the LINUX DESKTOP!!!! :laugh:

                                        My book, Launch Your Android App, is available at Amazon.com.

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                                        Munchies_Matt
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                                        Yeah? Says who, where and why? I would be happy for linux to take over, Windows is getting to be a pain in the but.

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