Flashing black screen bug (FIXED)

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I recently got back into the mod after taking about a year off. I installed everything as admin, updated all my drivers, and havn't changed any hardware since the last time I had it installed, but now I get a weird flashing black screen during loading, gameplay, and death screens. I never used to have this issue when I played dayz a yr ago. This happens on every server I join, and even when playing mods of the mod eg:epoch.

 

this is the only game that gives me this issue.

 

I have so far:

Completely cleaned my pc out. cleaned out all the case dust filters, took apart and cleaned the cpu cooler and added new TIM, took apart the gfx card and cleaned it then applied new TIM, re-seated the memory, blew the dust out behind the mobo, took the cover off the psu and cleaned it out, then stress tested it and checked the temps. Everything was within acceptable limits. so heat isn't an issue.

 

Updated drivers for mobo, gfx card, audio, and everything else I could find that uses a driver even my dvd player.

 

Ran with onboard audio, ran with a sound card.

 

Went through the BIOS with a fine toothed comb.

 

Reinstalled steam, arma x, and dayz making sure I ran everything as admin.

 

Fiddled with the arma gfx settings for hours.

 

Installed the game/mod on another pc and hooked it to my monitor. It ran fine with no issues. Conclusion: not the monitor/ girlfriend does not like me messing with her pc o.O

 

Ran ccleaner and kaspesky virus scan. checked registry for errors. ran a boot-time scan for especially sneaky viruses. defragged the hdd's.

 

 

 

I havn't tried:

Hitting it, but I'm tempted.

Re-installing Windows - absolute last resort

 

Here is a brief video of what it does:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ_vCoA1_4k

I set the fan curve to 100% at 60c even though the card is rated for much higher.

 

It does this while loading, playing, and death screen. It does not do this in the lobby screen.

 

Specs:

AMD FX 4170 4.2ghz

Asrock 970 extreme 3 mobo

8gb geil black dragon 1600mhz ddr3

160gb ssd for os and games

2x250gb seagate barricuda hdds for storage

EVGA 560ti 448 core classified ultra 1280mb

corsair 750w psu

Creative tactic 3d alpha sound card: (not currently installed) running onboard realtek sound

Lite-on dvd-rw

LG blue ray player

Hannspree monitor 26" on hdmi

Dell monitor 17" on dvi

Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate

 

 

Edited August 27, 2013 by gostrydr

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Update:

 

Rolled back video drivers to 296.10 from May 2012 and all is well.

Edited August 27, 2013 by gostrydr