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Laptop graphics card weirdness

  • 16-04-2009 07:42PM
    #1
    Sconsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Yesterday my laptop went kaput...blue screen and funny noises etc :(

    So after a bit of messing about here's what I have found...I can boot in safe mode and if I reset the driver back to the Windows default driver the laptop will work connected to an external monitor (nothing on the laptop screen). If I install the latest graphics driver I get a bluescreen half way through and am back to square one.

    I assume the graphics card is shagged but am surprised I can output to an external monitor (in safe mode).

    What's your thoughts? is it worth while buying a new graphics card or do you think there could be more wrong with the PC than that?

    It is/was an Nvidia Geforce Go 7300 card by the way, can't find much on t'internets about it.

    Cheers


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