Video Card Continued

photoshot · 03-10-2009, 08:43 PM

It appears my thread from yesterday has went MIA. But yesterday I stated that I think my card stopped working after the computer locked up and numerous yellow horizontal lines appeared on screen. After restarting my display was divided up unevenly 8 different times on the screen. At that point I couldn't even get Vista to launch. After reformatting my computer I was able to get into windows. It has a blue static on all the displays. I'm using a Qosmio F50 with Vista 32 bit. At first I thought my graphics card was broke but since I was able to get windows to run I'm assuming that it is still working. I downloaded and installed driver updates for my GeForce 8400m. After restarting the problem persisted and I was no longer able to get windows to run. So I'm basically wondering if this has happened to anyone else or if anyone has advice I could use. I'm currently guessing it has something to do with the graphics processor but I'm not 100% sure. I also cleaned out the laptop so it's pretty much dust free. I'm also 3 months out of the warranty so sending it back is out of the question.

photoshot · 03-10-2009, 09:19 PM

Bump.
Need help.

**grimx133** · 03-10-2009, 10:00 PM

It's in laptop support.
Video Card Problem?

Mcninjaguy · 03-10-2009, 10:02 PM

first off please try not to bump before at least 48 hours

second try running ATI tool to see if your card is indeed artifacting
http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

I would phone I guess HP support right and see how much it would cost to fix the laptop RMA it or whatever

03-10-2009, 08:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
photoshot Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 4 OS: Vista	Video Card Continued It appears my thread from yesterday has went MIA. But yesterday I stated that I think my card stopped working after the computer locked up and numerous yellow horizontal lines appeared on screen. After restarting my display was divided up unevenly 8 different times on the screen. At that point I couldn't even get Vista to launch. After reformatting my computer I was able to get into windows. It has a blue static on all the displays. I'm using a Qosmio F50 with Vista 32 bit. At first I thought my graphics card was broke but since I was able to get windows to run I'm assuming that it is still working. I downloaded and installed driver updates for my GeForce 8400m. After restarting the problem persisted and I was no longer able to get windows to run. So I'm basically wondering if this has happened to anyone else or if anyone has advice I could use. I'm currently guessing it has something to do with the graphics processor but I'm not 100% sure. I also cleaned out the laptop so it's pretty much dust free. I'm also 3 months out of the warranty so sending it back is out of the question.

03-10-2009, 09:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
photoshot Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 4 OS: Vista	Re: Video Card Continued Bump. Need help.

03-10-2009, 10:00 PM	#3 (permalink)
grimx133 Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canada eh Posts: 3,144 OS: xp mce sp2, xp pro sp2, windows 7 beta My System	Re: Video Card Continued It's in laptop support. Video Card Problem? __________________

03-10-2009, 10:02 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mcninjaguy Temporarily Banned Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Posts: 10,422 OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit My System Blog Entries: 1	Re: Video Card Continued first off please try not to bump before at least 48 hours second try running ATI tool to see if your card is indeed artifacting http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ I would phone I guess HP support right and see how much it would cost to fix the laptop RMA it or whatever