W7J Display Issues

Hi, I have a W7J laptop that is having display issues. When I turn on the laptop I hear the chime and the screen illuminates to a grey-ish white colour, but after that nothing else happens.

Is this likely a graphics chipset issue or something else? I want to make sure it's the chipset before purchasing a replacement. Thanks in advance.

 

Please attach an external display and let us know the results. If could be the graphic card, the drivers, the hard drive, etc

 

Thanks, I took some pictures of what happens. This picture is what happens on the screen when I turn it on.






After plugging in an external monitor and starting it up again, this is what shows up on the screen:





While this is what shows up on the external monitor:





I should mention that there is no hard drive in the laptop right now. I wanted so make sure the display was working before buying a hard drive.

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

So it looks like the problem might be the graphics card/chip. It is a GeForce Go 7400. Does anybody have an experience changing this out? Does it involve taking out the old chip and inserting the new chip or is there soldering or anything involved.

 

GPU was soldered onto the motherboard in the W7 series, if I recall correctly.

Time to look at a replacement notebook, as the W7 MB is probably going to be a couple hundred at least (if you can find one)

 

you could always try a reflow...

 

Thanks for the help guys. I was thinking the graphics chip is replaceable because I see it being sold on eBay.

King_Khan, pardon my ignorance, but what is a reflow?

 

mallik ^^^ Holy crap, it worked! Dead video card resurrected! - Page 14 - [H]ard|Forum

It appears that you would have to remove the video card and bake it in an oven
ClearSkies, I am not advocating this , just the opposite! Good point though

 

Inhaling air laced with fumes of mercury, lead and whatever else escapes from the PCB into the kitchen oven; if one was unintelligent enough to toss a desktop GPU card into it and try such a thing -- deserves what comes of it. Health risks, anyone?