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Solved! NVidia Control Panel causes Black screen flickering

Dova099

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Mar 29, 2017
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I just bought laptop.
When i enter NVidia Control Panel screen gets black and just cursor is visible.
I just need to do Alt+F4 to close control panel and its gone.
Laptop is Lenovo T530 with NVidia NVS 5400m and Intel 4000 graphic processors.
I guess there is conflict between drivers so clean windows reinstall would fix it but is there any possibility that maybe this problem is hardware fault.

I haven't tried running some GPU hungry programs like games or anything because I cant access Control panel to set it to use NVIDIA GPU without black screen.