My Framework's screen has developed a flicker/twitch/tear

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Apologies for screwing up my other post.

As the title says, my display has developed an annoying behavior; video attached to show it in action: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XUFgusiPLuVDqgam7

It’s a framework 13 (intel i5-1135G7), batch 4 from 2021, running Windows 11 that I’ve been otherwise fairly happy with. It’s recently developed the above behavior some of the screen contents flicker/twitch to an interlaced position. It wasn’t bad at first, but it’s gotten progressively worse until the point now where it’s hard to use the laptop.

The video shows relatively mild behavior when I first turn it on in the morning; it gets progressively worse as it stays on. It happens either on battery or plugged in, though it does sometimes seems like the behavior worsens when the battery is less charged.

I tried reseating the cable, updating all the drivers I could find, and poking at the GPU & power settings; so far no luck. It behaves fine when powering an external monitor.

At the moment my best guess is the screen, but figured I’d check here first to see if anyone has seen anything similar.

Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks!

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Did you reseat both ends of the cable? The only other thing that I would try, primarily because it would be an easy test, would be booting from a live USB to see if you still have the problem there. I agree with you that it sounds like it’s the display, but the two items above are worth trying before going down the display replacement path. You might also reach out to Support to see if they have any other troubleshooting suggestions. Best of luck getting things resolved.

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I’m experiencing the same issue, same shape and color. Mine occurs when watching video. Win 10, Batch 3 - 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1)

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Both ends of the cable are securely connected. I didn’t have a handy bootable USB, but I went into the BIOS and the issue is present there.

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That sounds familiar. My issue might have started that way before it got worse, but it’s been a while and I don’t recall exactly.

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I reinstalled drivers to an older version, it stopped. Intel arc control, had installed some updates prior to the errors happening.