What would cause my screen to fill with vertical lines?

It has happened twice tonight, my screen has stopped working, it is filled with vertical lines. After it happened the first time I updated to the latest video driver, the ones off the ATI site. It happened again though on the latest drivers. Is this the beginning of the PSOD?

 

What's it look like on an external monitor?

If you move the screen back and forth do the lines change?

 

I have not tried either, are you thinking the cable is wonky? Here is a close up of the pattern. Also It has gone blank twice as well. The screen is still on, but blank. The next time it does it I will plug it into an external monitor.

Here is a close up of the pattern...

 

Can't tell if its screen or GPU until you hook an external monitor up.

 

Any chance that it is software?

 

looks like vBIOS issue, have you ever update the vBIOS for G73JH provided by Gary Key?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/515309-how-fix-your-gsod-blues.html

 

Looks like a GSOD to me

 

this is likely a GSOD. upgrading your VBIOS would fix this issue.

 

How do people miss the giant "Read before posting"?

Update your vbios and and all will be well and even better.

 

I updated the video bios long ago, assuming I did it correctly this is the version number - 012.020.000.032

 

Code:

if(ConnectToExternalMonitor() == true)
{
     if(DisassembleAndCheckCables() == true)
     {
           if(!Recheck())
               return false;
     }
     return false;
}
else if(PrepareRMA() == true)
{
    Sleep(varRMATime);
}
else
{
    GC.Collect();
}

A "return false" is like RMAing or throwing something again the wall.

 

LOL @ GC.Collect();
oh C# how we love you

 

My machine did not do anything weird last night and has been fine so far this morning. One thing I did do last night was change the power setting in CCC to lock it at 700mhz. Prior to the weird screen failure I was using IRacing, my machine shut off while playing it, I had turned off the framerate limiter which I assumed caused the problem. My first thought was an overheating issue, I am quite sure it is not overheating though. I have never seen anything over 80c, it idles at 50c.

I will do some more testing tonight. I guess it could still be a heat issue causing the shut-down while in the game. If I exit the game and look at the temps they have not been high. I have not recorded the temps to see what is happening while in the game, I am assuming if it was high enough to shut the machine down I would still see a high reading in the time it takes to exit the game and look at the temps.

 

Just going to make a few modifications here to stuff that's not necessary. Also a few stylistic adjustments to increase readability, purely a preference and not necessary.

Code:

if(ConnectToExternalMonitor())
{
     if(DisassembleAndCheckCables())
     {
           if(!Recheck())
               return false;
     }

     return false;
}
else if(PrepareRMA())
{
    Sleep(varRMATime);
}
else
{
    GC.Collect();
}

And one more thing, I don't like the use of varRMATime. I'd like it better if it was named a little easier to determine its datatype during code review. Just makes it easier for the reviewer to determine what kind of data that method is taking.

I'm sure intellisense would tell me all the juicy details about the Sleep method, I just like to know these things from a higher level without having to pick through it by hand.

 

my thought is it needs to be in a bright red color so it grabs peoples attention...if any mods see this why not give it a try.....might cut down on new posts...

 

that and we should have separate threads for the
JH , JW and SW series

it is messed up (i don't like it)

 

yea...that would help alot of people I would think...mods give this a try please...

 

There's more to that serial number...

version: 012.020.000.032.0383.G730 (as reported in BIOS)
012.020.000.032.038352 (as reported by HW apps)

You can use HWINFO32 or GPU-Z to verify.

 

Thanks Chastity, I used GPU-Z

012.020.000.032.038352

Your whole post did not show, it did if I quoted it though.

 

lol vbios. Never updated mine and ive seen this screen maybe 4 times. A trick i use if i see this screen is i uninstall and reinstall the ATI drivers and i wont see this screen again for months. Not sure what the deal is but it works for me.

 

I've seen it twice now and only with the updated vbios.

 

The GSOD can also be caused by a vid driver crash. You may want to see if anything is hooking and locking.

I updated my vBIOS and I don't get GSODs period.

 

hooking and locking? I did have a video driver crash, at least I think it was, the machine shut off, it did boot up fine right after. It might have locked a few times during the reboot. I has been fine all day today and it was fine in IRacing tonight as well. I am going to keep the framerate limiter in IRacing on, I think when I switched it off it started the whole mess I had last night.

Thanks for the help.