Potential Failed GPU

Hi There,

Just yesterday, I was using my Sager NP9261 and all of a sudden the video went out and Windows 7 produced a BSOD with some message saying "Non paged fault". Since then, I've noticed that there are strange colored/dotted green lines displaying on the screen when I first turn on my computer and it displays the Sager splash screen. Also, The text in the BIOS screen has funny lines going through it as well. When I tried to boot into Windows 7 ultimate 64bit, I received the same BSOD over and over. I reformatted and reinstalled Windows...and as soon as I installed the display drivers, it gave me the exact same BSOD. However, safe mode works perfectly and so does "last known good configuration".

Is my video card fried somehow? I tried pulling it out and reseating it, but it still shows strange artifacts only on the splash screen and BIOS screen. Windows seems to work fine only when used in safe mode (when the video card isn't using actual Nvidia drivers). I have an Nvidia GeForce GO 7950 GTX.

I don't think it's the drivers or a loose LCD inverter cable, since artifacting occurs before windows loads the actual display drivers, and also the lines don't occur in Windows once it's booted up in safe mode.

Any advice? Are there any alternative methods to restoring a failed GPU? (I saw something on youtube in which they took some kind of heat gun and heated up the GPU die and it worked, but I'm a bit skeptical of it)

Thank You!

 

Looks like a dead GPU.

As a last resort, you can try to bake it. Guide here. It`s even regarding the same graphicscard. Many people have tried this, and brought their card back to life. However, I don`t think this is a permanently fix.

 

If you decide at any moment to buy another GPU, i'm selling a professional Quadro FX GPU.
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