Laptop Dieing or Overheating?

jenga

jenga

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Hi
Got a philips Freevents X54 laptop with a nvidia Geforce go 7400 gpu. Everything was fine till yesterday when i loaded supreme commander, after a couple of minutes it just locked up and had to reboot. On rebooting the bios screen had blue vertical lines down it and when trying to boot into windows the screen had garbled text all over it and it just blue screened and reset itself. After booting into safemode and removing the nvidia drivers it would boot fine into windows and could use it fine.

Today i tried various nvidia drivers and it takes forever to boot or just resets it self, even tried a fresh install of vista and same results. Works fine with svga drivers installed. The corruption in the bios screen seems to get worse the longer the laptops been on which leads me to believe it could be heat related.

Anybody got any suggestions? TIA
 
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Could be, but the fact it keeps trashing itself when it has the drivers installed reeks of faulty Nvidia card to me.
Still got warranty? Definately better to send it back rather than fiddle around inside.
 
and if the warranty has ran out then open it up and see what its problem is.....could be just a faulty fan on the g.card
 
unfortunatley its out of warranty :( going to get some compressed air and see if cleaning heatsink and fan has any effect, if not might open her up :(
 
the gfx is intergrated on the mainboard and looks like its showing signs of overheating but as your getting corruption sounds like the chip has a bad contact it can be repaired but needs specialist equipment to reflow the BGA GPU
 
Specialist equipment sounds expensive :(
Just taken back off the laptop and heatsinks and fan look rather clean not much dust at all.
 
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