Satellite Pro A60: External monitor shimmers

I use a Satellite Pro A60 with a second (tft) monitor as a dual display setup. When displaying dark backgrounds or images on the second monitor there is a very noticable horizontal shimmer that moves around on the screen.
I have tested the monitor on another machine and it is fine, so I can only assume there is a problem with the notebook or the ATI graphics card.
If anyone can help me solve this problem I would be very grateful, as it is giving me a headache (literally!).

Hello andy
I use external TFT at home with my Tecra and it works fine. The screen refresh rate for external TFT monitor must be set to 60 Hz. If the problem still persists there must be some other reason for this.
I am pretty sure that non-Toshiba display driver can also be responsible for this issue but I hope that you use Toshiba designed driver for graphic card. You should also try to connect some other TFT or even CRT monitor and check if the same problem persists. If yes it is caused by graphic card and you should contact service partner. It is possible that graphic card must be exchanged.
In my opinion this can not be solved by BIOS or other kind of update.
Good luck!

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