Image flickering on 2nd monitor

Ever since I installed ML on my MacBook Pro 13", the image on my external monitor (Gateway 20") has been flickering, making it impossible to work on — any idea what to do about it?

I am having a similar issue - I have a mid 2010 13 macbook pro with a 22 inch AOC monitor connected via minport to vga. The external monitor filckering artifacts - almost like refresh atrifacts in random parts of the screen. It happens constantly and did NOT happen in Lion. After some testing is seems to happen in the higher resolutions including 'best for display' setting of 1920x1080. What chnaged in Mountain Lion display driver?

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Below is the suggested information to provide...
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Have you installed the recent updates? Yes, 4.2
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If you are getting error message(s), what is the full text of the error message(s)? No error messages.
What were you doing when the problem occurred? I am in the develop module cropping images etc.
What other software are you running? Silver Efex Pro 2, but I have had that installed in many prior versions of Lightroom
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Did you make any changes to your system, such as updating hardware, printers or drivers, or installing/uninstalling any programs? No, no other changes.
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