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    What's causing this bad screen

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Goren, Jan 4, 2014.

  1. Goren

    Goren Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    badscreen.JPG

    Dell Precision M4300 from a relative.
    it was working normally until a few weeks ago, I keep getting this screen or something similar.
    blank with a few strange lines.

    Connecting it to an external monitor, windows runs almost normally.
    except that the colors are in 4-bit and super low resolution. It can't be changed in control panel. Its a "worse than safe-mode" effect.

    I tried to open the bezel and lid, every thing seems to be connected properly

    think the vid card is dying? mobo?
    time to junk this computer?
     
    Goren, Jan 4, 2014
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    Jarhead 恋の♡アカサタナ

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    Since it doesn't look like there's obvious physical damage to the display, it could be a dying video card.

    I've dealt with one or two laptops from family friends that looked similar and they ended up being faulty GPUs.
     
    Jarhead, Jan 4, 2014
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    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    what graphics do you have?
     
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    Goren Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    should be quadro fx 360m (nvidia)
     
    Goren, Jan 4, 2014
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    that sure looks like a dying gpu. connecting to the external monitor is most prob using the internal graphics.
     

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