Recent issues

So I had a grey screen of death once or twice over the last few weeks, followed by the screen flickering and displaying a gradient of pulsating, thick grey bars earlier today, with the bottom half of the screen blacked out and unable to click on anything.



Any ideas what's wrong? Laptop is relatively new and I take decent care of it. Have been travelling a lot recently though and have very, very little HDD space left. Pretty sure that can't be the cause though, right?

Reply 1 : Recent issues

Ive only heard of these problems on the ATI Radeon HD 5xxx series. and the fix was to make adjustments to the idle clocks.

Reply 2 : Recent issues

Try a newer / different driver. Check first on the website of your notebook manufacturerer. Also try the latest from nvidias homepage if it doesn't work with the other one.



HDD shouldn't cause this issue. I once had a similar problem, screen going black or pink (eek ^^) and it was a driver issue.

Reply 3 : Recent issues

Also now have a window's warning saying that I should consider replacing the battery - without being plugged in, it runs out of juice distressingly quickly and will occasionally just shut off instantly without any power down screens or warning messages.



Yesterday, it refused to start up and all I saw was a flashing underscore in the top left corner...

Reply 4 : Recent issues

Stop errors can be caused by different things: Resolving stop (blue screen) errors in Windows 7



The most popular solution is to try a system restore. I would try that and see if you're still having the same issues.



-- Ryan

Windows Outreach Team

Reply 5 : Recent issues

Quote:

Originally Posted by w7pro Stop errors can be caused by different things: Resolving stop (blue screen) errors in Windows 7 The most popular solution is to try a system restore. I would try that and see if you're still having the same issues. -- Ryan Windows Outreach Team

Typical m$ rep forum posts .. worth as much as used toilet paper.



Ontopic: Buy new battery (check the old ones capacity first), try different versions of video drivers, downclock the gpu/vram,

if those can't fix it then hardware going bad.dead .. time for warranty repair or buy new one ..