Screen on Asus G1s went out, came back,but is messed up. Need help badly!

I attempted to transfer some pictures over to my computer from my camera and then transfer them to a USB drive. I my camera in and the usual screen came up asking if I wanted to manually open up the picture files and look through them.

I hit okay while plugging in the USB drive and that is when something went terribly wrong. The entire screen was suddenly distorted showing off lines of red blue and green while functioning very slowly. I tried restarting the computer manually and when I did,the display did not work. I can hear the startup noise and the windows start up but nothing appears on the screen. The screen is still since I can see that it is lit but it is not displaying anything.


I tired connecting it to an external display but now I can't get it to go to the windows start up any more. I will turn it on and hit enter thinking it is asking me to start up windows a normal. Instead the entire display turns off and on and sometimes will flash a bunch of 0s and 1s.

I tried doing a system restore through the startup menu and while I am not sure if it helped, my laptop got up and running again but in a bad way. The screen is still distorted:



It won't let me change the resolution on the screen. While I want to do a fresh reboot, I know this is probably a lot to do with hardware failure.

I'm going to give ASUS a call but I doubt they will do anything since the laptop is over four years old. Also they replaced the notorious 8600M GS in it for a 9500M GS about 3 years back.

Any clues on whats going on and how I can maybe fix it on my own?

 

Looks like bad GPU to me, how's the screen before boot to Windows?

 

+1 for what Ken said.

If it's a regular G1S and not a G1Sn, your GPU is almost guaranteed to fail due to a design flaw by nvidia.

 

Like they both said its for sure gpu. I would look around for a good bios dump of the same card and flash the vbios with nvflash.