Last night I was playing a game on the computer, and all of a sudden the screen became pixalated and to when all I could are colorful grainy blocks all over the screen to where you couldn’t see anything, eventually leading to a system beep and then a blue screen. When I stopped moving the mouse and let it stand still for a little bit it the writing on the screen started to become a little clearer. It said physical memory, but that is all I could read. I rebooted and went into the bios and the same thing happened. I could not read anything in the bios.
Also, I noticed when I booted into xp, it was clear for a minute and then did the same thing. I could see what I was doing with all the stuff going on. It had a pixalated box around the mouse pointer. When I opened my computer and control panel it kept performing a search on both. It eventually became so distorted I could not see anything. Even the HP logo on startup is getting messed up. It was jumping and had a line through it.
Is this bad memory or motherboard? It is hard to describe the screen. Hope it makes sense.
Running
HP ZD8010 (Laptop)
XP MCE
ATI 128MB X600
2GB RAM
100 GB HDD
