ankoump Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 For starters i do apologise if i failed to find within the stickies/older threads a similar issue that could help me out. But i would appreciate indeed some help. I have the forementioned laptop that i bought a couple of years ago, and the warranty has expired. Today, while i was playing a game, suddenly the display messed up and all sorts of colours started appearing in mostly wavey-patterns. After a while the screen just when black, but i could still hear the in-game sound. After restarting i did notice that desktop had some minor display issues (such as thread-like colour mis-display) and i did login in the same game to test it out. Unfortunately i had the same issue, after some seconds display went fuzzy and later on all black. While i tried rolling back with system restore, and since Nvidia Geforce7600Go driver updates are hard to find i decided to reformat in hope that reinstalling windows and the applications the possible software issue would resolve. Unfortunatelly it didnt, and now laptop is going on-off not allowing me to restore applications (windows was installed) and display seems fuzzy still. I now get BSOD's since applications arent restored and cant seem to do much. I know my description of the problem is not the best,i am convinced though in my pc/laptop newbness that it is a hardware issue of my nvidia. Question is what the appropriate action if any is. Or should i just try and send it to Belgium (i am UK resident and that's where Sony customer support seems to be) or try any other PC/Laptop repairs within UK? Or should i just consider it good as dead? Again, sorry for long post and for failling to find similar stickys/older threads. Any help, or sharing of past expereinces with Sony's repair system is appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ankoump Posted November 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 well i know i got no responces but i ll keep it on; seems GPU is overheating. I reformated the whole system with the pre-installed drivers from NVIDIA, and also downloaded ntune to try and monitor the temperatures. After i try to play the forementioned game i get red lines everywhere (artifacts?) and then laptop screen goes dark. Tried some performance test from ntune and as soon as i run i got it again. i ll try and clean the insides with compressed air hoping it might help. It seems though that it is very sensitive and overheats very fast... well i be damned if i knew what to do.(other than send it to sony and pay fees that probably wont sort it out) thanks for reading (hoping i ll get some helpful reply) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ankoump Posted November 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Well, i ll keep talking to myself. Apparently sony's charges are: £141 for just picking up and if i dont agree at any repair £206 for minor repairs £206+£137 for any repairs other than motherboard/screen £206+£491 for motherboard/screen repairs Seemingly its a GPU issue. Since, if i am not mistaken GPU is intergrated to the motherboard it is 60% possibility that they will have to change motherboard (thus £707) and 40% that they will just have to change the GPU. Thats what they said anyway. It's not really worth for a 2+ year laptop is it now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ankoump Posted November 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2008 (edited) well this forum is :) not really.... now this is a real forum Edited November 16, 2008 by ankoump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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