P-6831FX - Graphic card broken?

Hi,

2 days ago my laptop screen suddenly had streaks all over it and the computer froze. I restarted it and nothing appeared on the screen; however, I can hear the computer functioning properly, heard it boot into windows, etc. I also pressed Fn+F8 for contrast changes and noticed the screen become brighter/darker, but no display.

I tried hooking up an external monitor and pressing Fn+F4, screen still nothing.

Then upon further restarts, the screen was back, everything was normal; I booted into safe mood and was able to use it for hours with no problem. I also deleted the nvidia drivers and reverted back to standard vga display.

I restarted into normal windows, and right away, the streaks on the screen appeared again, and then I got a blue screen of death with memory/parity errors. Unfortunately, the screen has streaks all over it and I can't read the actual codes.


So I have a dual-boot setup, Windows Vista and Windows 7, and same problems happen with either. At this point, I'm starting to suspect my graphics card broke...my laptop has overheated and restarted >12 times while playing games in the past 1.5 years.


Anyone run into similar problems? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

 

same thing happened here.
its a brick for few months now.

 

I had similar problems on my P6860fx. Baking the mobo to fix the GPU is currently working for me. A number of others have also done this successfully. There is a thread in this forum that describes how to do it.