First, these are my system info;
Product name: HP ENVY TouchSmart 15 Notebook PC
Product number: F6C80PA#ABG (0 is a zero not an oh)
Keyboard revision: KBC Version 93.51
Total memory: 8.00 GB
Processor name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz
OS Name: Microsoft Windows 8.1
OS Version: 6.3.9600 Build 9600
System Type: x64-based PC
And, these are my graphics drivers installed;
Graphics device 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M
Installed Drivers: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version: 9.18.13.4052
Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\nviddmkm.sys
Graphics device 2: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600
Installed Drivers: igdumdim64.dll, igd10iumd64.dll, igd10iumd64.dll, igdumdim32, igd10iumd32, igd10iumd32
Driver Version: 10.18.10.3304
Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\igdkmd64.sys
Current resolution: 1920 x 1080
Refresh rate: 60
so I have this smart alternating switch thingy for my graphics which i suppose that
the screen utilizes either of these two depending on the demand for graphic resources
e.g. it switches on Intel HD graphics 4600 for displaying low-qual and NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M for displaying high-qual
to save power consumption or something that's as far as I know about my display drivers.
My laptop is reasonably new I think it's less than a year old
so i'm a bit overly pissed right now that my laptops showing symptoms of wearing.
so as the title suggests I've been noticing that when I startup and input my password,
and just as I press enter, the whole login screen blinks once very briefly and then loads up the desktop.
I know this seems only a minor issue and surely i have no major problems with running the machine
but I've been seeing forum posts of people having the same issue
and that it's a problem associated with malfunctioning graphics drivers.
So I thought maybe if the screen blinks before loading up the display,
then whatever media that I load up afterwards would not be displayed properly, since the driver is not working properly.
And since I believe that my NVIDIA display drivers are certainly capable of displaying some high graphics material
I thought maybe that I may be trashing the benefits of using a reasonable graphics card by not fixing this problem.
So I was just wondering if there's a way to resolve the blinking screen before startup problem,
which I believe is most likely to be indicating that my machine is not correctly detecting the display drivers installed
and hence is not showing any media as good as they should be showing.
I guess maybe I'll have to re-install the graphics drivers,
but I'm not sure if I would be luckly enough to run a "clean" re-install for "Both" the Intel HD Graphics and NVIDIA Geforce Graphics without confronting any technical disasters (i.e. me wrecking my machine)
So please help me with this!
and if a re-install is needed as such, please provide as many minute details as possible.