Strange Problem with laptop

sjcf1 · 5 Oct 2010 at 18:56

Hi, been given a laptop to fix, and its stumping me the cause of it. It won't load into windows as its bluescreening.

I've set it doing a ram test and every now and again the screen flickers a lot. I've attached a picture of it.

This gets me think is it faulty memory inside or is it a loose cable with another problem that's preventing it from booting?

Thanks in advance

beermonster · 5 Oct 2010 at 19:56

loose cable or at worse a dodgy graphics chip, is it an nvidia gpu by anychance.

sjcf1 · 5 Oct 2010 at 21:01

Its a lenovo n500. Which has got intel gma graphics.

postmanfw · 5 Oct 2010 at 21:08

Faulty gpu/mb or a faulty screen possibly

Have you tried it with a monitor?

Also try it with a boot disk like backtrack.

sjcf1 · 5 Oct 2010 at 21:09

Thanks for that, I'll try those.

Would the faulty gpu cause it to fail booting?

postmanfw · 6 Oct 2010 at 12:33