ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 Serious Display Problem

...although you mentioned "reinstalling" the drivers, visit the ATI site and install the most recent updated drivers..Also try UNINSTALLING the device from within the Device Manager, then restart to let Windows recognize and reinstall drivers. If still no joy, replace the card.

Hope this helps.

Grif

I am having the same exact problem. It started out of no where a week ago. I tried running the diagnostics and it didn't report anything. It's a good thing that I extended my Dell warranty for another two years. It ended a week before this problem surfaced. If anyone found a solution I would appreciate it. I don't want to have to call Dell and have them give me a run around across three continents (experienced it last time, no pleasure cruise).
Thanks in advance.

I'm experiencing flicker on certain textures and colours too. I've completely removed the ATI drivers three times using Driver Cleaner Pro 3. I've installed normal windows drivers, ATI drivers and Omega drivers. Although they all work, there is this continuous flickering problem.

Sadly, it really does reek of a damaged card....

Oh, and I've noticed the problem at startup on a really cold day (in case anybody thinks that it may be overheating). Probably need to buy a anew card unless someone else has a suggestion...

Just to test whether it's the monitor having issues. If a second monitor shows similar results, then replace the card.

Hope this helps.

Grif

I noticed from the first post that the user is using the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 card on a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop. Is it really possible for a user to swap a laptop monitor on his/her own without taking the laptop to a service center? If yes, can you detail the steps on how to do that? I guess that it would be a lot of hard work.

Or what you mean here is just to connect the Video Out port to an external monitor? Will it work the same way and produce the same results as the embedded laptop monitor (meaning: is it possible that video card problems will only affect the embedded monitor but doesn't show any problems on external monitors - or they will always look the same)?

Thanks.