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Vaio pcg-grv670 with screen artifacts

Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by twenty47, Oct 1, 2008.

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Hi there all, i hope you can help me as i have been searching for sometime to save my laptop from the tip. Ive had this laptop for approx 5 years and love it. But lately it has been overheating? and causing the screen to shutter, and creates artifacts?, opened it up and thought that the 2nd fan was the culprit so replaced it. The cpu fan was working how well i am not sure? the condition is still there. Now through searching on the net i think it may have affected my video card, which i read is not good and not fixable? The laptop seems to work fine otherwise, please help me diagnose this issue and save a sony vaio. thanks

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Connect your monitor output to an external monitor. If it's still there, then it's likely a video card problem. Download something like RivaTuner to check your GPU temperatures. If it's not overheating, it might be a driver problem? Otherwise, see if undervolting will save your laptop.

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Thanks, what do you mean by undervolting? is this power input control? any way to test if i don't have an external monitor?

twenty47, Oct 2, 2008

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