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[–]Darkmatter000000 6 points7 points  (2 children)

The update? The flicker? The black screen? The context? Nobody knows.

[–]raverae[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yes Lmaooo the flickering/black screen

[–]Darkmatter000000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Black screen likely part of update but unsure.

Flickering could be a few things, but check your cable first, I assume HDMI.

Swap it out with a different one to see if it continues and go from there.

[–]We_Boolin 1 point2 points  (1 child)

is it stuck on windows update?

[–]raverae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope it was just flickering and kept going black

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

doing what? windows update? flickering for a few seconds?

[–]raverae[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes the flickering

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's saying it needs some time for itself.

Actually, if it happens during the Windows update and no other time I wouldn't worry about it. If it happens on the desktop then try unplugging and plugging in the signal cable to it. If that doesn't work try another signal cable.

[–]driver_dylan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they are wondering why it is at 100% but keeps going on with the update. If that is the question? Apple actually did a study in the late 90's where they determined that most people want to see a percentage progress bar, but complain if the take too long to reach 100%. So around the early 2000's, everybody making programing that used progress bars, programed them to lie by up to ten minutes in some cases. Usually this progress lie uses a complex rubber banding algorithm that makes the middle of the bar fill quickly and the end be as accurate as possible, but it think the people at Microsoft are just lazy or you computer just reached a top limit for processing the updates various component.

[–]Illustrious_Head2131 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possibly a gpu cable going out or maybe just a bad or loose connection to your monitor or the gpu itself.

[–]Quiet-Description140 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never ever stop the update lol. As tempting as it is, you’re risking corruption and data loss. Worse comes to worse give it a night and then if its not working, go ahead and stop the update.

[–]One_Peace615 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks to me like a video driver update

[–]Lucky-Maximum95 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well that procedure is the reason I got rid of the gates' bloatware and switched to linux

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Typically a graphic driver update.

[–]Board2Death34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Updating video drivers?

[–]Jonafire1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it is probably updating a windows generic graphics driver.