eric, I am getting flashes on both my monitors when I start up windows. One of them flashes (the old one,running a plug and play driver) when I go to display settings and open the advanced button. It also took a few whacks to get my refresh rates set back to comfortable levels after updating the driver. nish, I am on to the os setting now. I didn't want to muddy my own waters until I had tried to solve it internally with the software. I am kind of in the same boat as eric now as I have made so many changes that I don't remember them all. I know I'm suppose to take detailed notes but I let my need to fix this get the best of me. mokba