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May 2, 2008 at 8:39 am #2147781

Laptop display distorted in Windows only

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by casemaker · about 14 years ago

Hi,
I have been troubleshooting a laptop display. Laptop runs XP. I have tested hard drive, memory, CPU fan etc. No matter what I do I get red lines or other distorted areas on the display after a short while running. It also will boot with no display only black after a time and I try to reboot.
I have uninstalled tha nVidia drivers using add remove and device manager. I get the same results when I connect a CRT externally. The only time I do not get the distortion is when I run MS MemTest. It boots to disk and loads and runs for hours with no display issues.
Thanks

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- May 2, 2008 at 8:39 am #2567599
  
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  by nepenthe0 · about 14 years ago
  
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- May 2, 2008 at 4:35 pm #2567391
  
  So as a starting point have you rebuilt the Windows Kernal?
  
  by oh smeg · about 14 years ago
  
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- January 19, 2010 at 5:56 am #2837957
  
  facing a similar problem for my DELL laptop
  
  by borseanand · about 12 years, 4 months ago
  
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  Hi,
  
  I am facing a similar problem with my dell laptop as stated above. Could any one help?
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