Guest Natalia Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Hi guys I was just playing Guild Wars the other night when my pc just froze and then tried to restart. Ever since then, windows won't load. It tries to startup repair which doesn't fix it and the screens just remains blank. Just out of curiosity, i went into safe mode and disabled the geforce 8600m GS and it worked! I tried downloading newer drivers from this site but windows still won't load apart from safe mode I've tried system restore to no avail. It works absolutley fine with the standard vga card I just don't understand why it's stopped working? I've not added any new hardware, software or new drivers I wonder if you had any ideas please? Ps I'm a girl so don't have a clue about bios etc Thank you My zoostorm laptop runs vista home premium 32bit service pack1 Intel core duo 1.8 1gb memory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACP0WER Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 i'm sorry to bring bad news, but i think your gpu is fried. if your lucky its MXM wich means its replaceable with something more powerfull.(like an 8600GT for example) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 I think there is still hope, you can try driver sweeper sweep out all the drivers and try it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew55 Posted February 21, 2009 Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 When in safe mode are you seeing any anomalies on the screen (as in multicoloured lines or weird artifacts). BTW, i lol'ed when I saw 'I'm a girl so I have no idea what is bios.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest natalia Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Hi Andrew, Glad i made you laugh with my bios noobness :) Safe mode seems to work perfectly, no lines, glitches etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew55 Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Ok, here's what i suggest you do, since it doesn't look as if there is a problem with the gpu: http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index....showtopic=22324 Download those (you don't need modded inf.) Then uninstall the previous ones (use device manager), then restart and install these. They should work. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalia Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Andrew, what can i say?! It worked! I used driver sweeper in safe mode to get rid of the preivious one then installed the drivers you linked and et voila! Thank you SO much. How did you know that would work? I thought i was going to have to spend a fortune Thanks again, i'm so grateful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Natalia Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Oh no It was working fine until I tried to start a game then a blue screen came up saying something about resetting a display adaptor then it shut down. I put it back on and it started startup repair and then done a system restore to the standard VGA :) How annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew55 Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Exactly what game was that? It looks as if the only sure way to cure this problem might be with a reformat as I can't think of anything else. Also, what are your gpu temps (you can check this with ntune or rivatuner.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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