Guest Madogmurpy Posted June 2, 2010 Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 I'm running a 8400M GT Nvidia card on my Sony VGN-FZ4000 laptop with Vista 32-bit. The other day my computer got a blue screen crash and when it started up the screen got these strange patterns all over. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers but that did absolutely nothing. My next step was to try and format the hard drive, but when I get to the screen that asks me do I want to reformat the screen gets divided into 2 incredibly distorted halves that are impossible to make heads or tails of. http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8541/29473408993503336571993.jpg The yellow lines are the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted June 2, 2010 Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 This sounds very much like a GPU failure. Sorry... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest madogmurpy Posted June 2, 2010 Report Share Posted June 2, 2010 This sounds very much like a GPU failure. Sorry... So my next step to fixing this would be to either replace something or throw my computer out the window? I'd prefer the latter but I don't have the money to be fixing anything right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest renebex Posted June 4, 2010 Report Share Posted June 4, 2010 Im having the same problem since yesterday. I have a Sony VGN-FZ340E , Vista32, and the 8400M GT. Im getting the same patterns across the screen, cant find an answer... :) I'm running a 8400M GT Nvidia card on my Sony VGN-FZ4000 laptop with Vista 32-bit. The other day my computer got a blue screen crash and when it started up the screen got these strange patterns all over. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers but that did absolutely nothing. My next step was to try and format the hard drive, but when I get to the screen that asks me do I want to reformat the screen gets divided into 2 incredibly distorted halves that are impossible to make heads or tails of. http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8541/29473408993503336571993.jpg The yellow lines are the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moz Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 Im having the same problem since yesterday. I have a Sony VGN-FZ340E , Vista32, and the 8400M GT. Im getting the same patterns across the screen, cant find an answer... :) It's under recall and can get it fix free from Sony. http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-item.pl?mdl=VGNFZ340E&news_id=349 Once you do get it fix, make sure to have a laptop cooler under that. Goodluck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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