Graphic Artifacts on Laptop Screen

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I have just received a laptop to fix and it appears that whether its in the bios,bootup screen and in windows, the screen is covered in Graphic artifacts. I have connected a crt to the laptop and the same artifacts appear on it also. Because its happening in the Bios, I am thinking along the lines of a hardware fault than anything else.

Could this be the graphics card in the laptop at fault and if so, should I just replace it if its not an 'integrated/onboard' graphics card?

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looks to me like it would be a graphics hardware issue, specifically i believe it's the memory thats the fault on the graphics card. what is the current GPU installed? and are you sure its removable?
 
Yep mine has done the same and chances are it will require a whole new motherboard since most gpus will be onboard.
Company my laptop is from is trying to charge me £500 for a replacement mobo + gpu. Thing is that I can buy a new laptop for only a little bit more money than that!
 
Smit said:
Yep mine has done the same and chances are it will require a whole new motherboard since most gpus will be onboard.
Company my laptop is from is trying to charge me £500 for a replacement mobo + gpu. Thing is that I can buy a new laptop for only a little bit more money than that!
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how old is it? Since there is a lot of documentation around of this being a manufacturing defect on the part of NVidia you should be able to wrangle a free repair under the Sales of Goods Act (if you're in the United Kingdom).
 
philjohn said:
how old is it? Since there is a lot of documentation around of this being a manufacturing defect on the part of NVidia you should be able to wrangle a free repair under the Sales of Goods Act (if you're in the United Kingdom).
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I'm in the Czech Republic at the moment. It's coming up for 2 years old now.
The company I bought it from is in Denmark so I'm not sure if the SoGA applies or not.
 
When I get home later, I will let u all know what card is in the Toshiba laptop. If the card is replacable I wonder how much a replacement one is? On another point, the laptop has built in tv. Is that on a seperate card or onboard normally?
 
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When I get home later, I will let u all know what card is in the Toshiba laptop. If the card is replacable I wonder how much a replacement one is? On another point, the laptop has built in tv. Is that on a seperate card or onboard normally?
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Can be either I believe.
Do you know what the model number of the Toshiba it is? Or even CPU type since that would help identify it
 
The laptop is a Toshiba Qosmio G30 - 117 (Model No: PQG30E-01T01SEN) and from what I can find on the net, is the graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 - 128 MB
 
I can't seem to find out in writing if the 7600 in the laptop is removable or not and its not the easiest laptop to open up hence why I haven't touched it but from various sites on the internet, it appears the 7600 is soldered to the mobo like in other laptops. I always got the impression that when a laptop stated integrated graphics it meant soldered hence shared memory and dedicated meant removable with it having its own memory etc? It looks like I am wrong and I will think twice in the future when purchasing a laptop. It seems this over expensive laptop at the time has found a new home in the bin.
 
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