Graphics driver makes screen turn to static.

Trove · 03-09-2009, 10:40 AM

I'm packing a compaq presario f500, which, after a bit of research, ive learned are notorious for being released with a faulty motorboard. This laptop takes at least 5 restarts before it even boots into BIOS, 4/5ths of the time the screen stays black and it just restarts itself.

Now, THAT I can totally deal with; i usually go make myself a cup of tea before sitting down at the computer anyway so its no trouble. However, this lappy's problems are numerous and hair-tearingly annoying.

Most I can live with, but the main one is as follows;

whenever I install the graphics cards driver (nvidia go 6100) over the default display driver, when i boot the computer up, it gets to the vista logo with the little loading bar, loads for a bit... and then...

suddenly the logo dissappears and is replaced with a line of colourful static, as if the logo exploded and was strewn across the screen and is going round and round at 200 miles per hour.

After that dissappears, the entire screen fills up with colourful static, the colours are the same as the default welcome screen, which leads me to believe the OS is booting, but the graphics driver, as soon as its activated corrupts the display, pardon my french, fecking it up.

Now, I'm fairly computer savvy, I know it's not an incompatible driver because, aside from the fact that its listed as the only reccomended dispay driver according to vista, but the driver USED to boot, it USED to work fine, but after a while, it started doing this staticcy thing, if i rebooted the driver it WOULD boot... once or twice, but on the second or third boot up it would fail, and eventually it didnt work at all...

Because of this computers faulty motherboard im assuming there is something wrong with the graphics card's connection to the motherboard, because nothing hints to the graphics card being faulty... but then again im almost always wrong, when i first got this laptop i thought it was the hard drive causing all the problems >.>

so, time for a bit of professional advice; does anyone have any idea what is wrong? and if i can fix it?

thanks infinitely for any help.

Trove · 03-10-2009, 07:44 PM

fell off the front page, didnt get a responce.

dman61992 · 03-10-2009, 08:24 PM

@ Trove-

You could switch back to XP. It doesnt have as many issues with drivers

dman61992 · 03-10-2009, 08:28 PM

btw...The Nvidia go 6100 is integrated into the motherboard so it may be faulty too.

Trove · 03-11-2009, 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dman61992

@ Trove-

You could switch back to XP. It doesnt have as many issues with drivers

Tried that my friend; didnt work. It is prolly a faulty motherboard :S but i dont really wanna order a new one, it'd probably work out cheaper to buy a new lappy :'(

03-09-2009, 10:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
Trove Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Vista Ultimate SP1	Graphics driver makes screen turn to static. I'm packing a compaq presario f500, which, after a bit of research, ive learned are notorious for being released with a faulty motorboard. This laptop takes at least 5 restarts before it even boots into BIOS, 4/5ths of the time the screen stays black and it just restarts itself. Now, THAT I can totally deal with; i usually go make myself a cup of tea before sitting down at the computer anyway so its no trouble. However, this lappy's problems are numerous and hair-tearingly annoying. Most I can live with, but the main one is as follows; whenever I install the graphics cards driver (nvidia go 6100) over the default display driver, when i boot the computer up, it gets to the vista logo with the little loading bar, loads for a bit... and then... suddenly the logo dissappears and is replaced with a line of colourful static, as if the logo exploded and was strewn across the screen and is going round and round at 200 miles per hour. After that dissappears, the entire screen fills up with colourful static, the colours are the same as the default welcome screen, which leads me to believe the OS is booting, but the graphics driver, as soon as its activated corrupts the display, pardon my french, fecking it up. Now, I'm fairly computer savvy, I know it's not an incompatible driver because, aside from the fact that its listed as the only reccomended dispay driver according to vista, but the driver USED to boot, it USED to work fine, but after a while, it started doing this staticcy thing, if i rebooted the driver it WOULD boot... once or twice, but on the second or third boot up it would fail, and eventually it didnt work at all... Because of this computers faulty motherboard im assuming there is something wrong with the graphics card's connection to the motherboard, because nothing hints to the graphics card being faulty... but then again im almost always wrong, when i first got this laptop i thought it was the hard drive causing all the problems >.> so, time for a bit of professional advice; does anyone have any idea what is wrong? and if i can fix it? thanks infinitely for any help.

03-10-2009, 07:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
Trove Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 3 OS: Vista Ultimate SP1	Re: Graphics driver makes screen turn to static. fell off the front page, didnt get a responce.

03-10-2009, 08:24 PM	#3 (permalink)
dman61992 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Alabama, United States Posts: 51 OS: Mac OS X Leopard, Windows XP 32bit, Vista 64bit, 7 64bit	Re: Graphics driver makes screen turn to static. @ Trove- You could switch back to XP. It doesnt have as many issues with drivers

03-10-2009, 08:28 PM	#4 (permalink)
dman61992 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Alabama, United States Posts: 51 OS: Mac OS X Leopard, Windows XP 32bit, Vista 64bit, 7 64bit	Re: Graphics driver makes screen turn to static. btw...The Nvidia go 6100 is integrated into the motherboard so it may be faulty too.