PC freezes, rectangles shown on display

[Guest CrazySaguaro]

Has anyone ever seen an error like this? The PC freezes once or twice a day

with these crazy rectangles on the display. The PC has Windows XP and is a

Lenovo T60. Windows doesn't even have time to respond and no errors are

logged in the System Log that I can see. Upon a hard restart, Windows does

not show the F8 boot message or come up with any errors/popups when I reach

the desktop.

 

Pictures of errors:

http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash1.jpg

http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash2.jpg

http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash3.jpg

 

Thanks for any help.

 

-Gina

[Guest Malke]

Re: PC freezes, rectangles shown on display

 

CrazySaguaro wrote:

> Has anyone ever seen an error like this? The PC freezes once or twice a

> day

> with these crazy rectangles on the display. The PC has Windows XP and is

> a

> Lenovo T60. Windows doesn't even have time to respond and no errors are

> logged in the System Log that I can see. Upon a hard restart, Windows

> does not show the F8 boot message or come up with any errors/popups when I

> reach the desktop.

>

> Pictures of errors:

> http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash1.jpg

> http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash2.jpg

> http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash3.jpg

 

This is a hardware issue, possibly overheating, bad video chip, or other

failing components. Contact Lenovo tech support.

 

Malke

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[Guest Mick Murphy]

RE: PC freezes, rectangles shown on display

 

From your 1st photo, I'd say it was failing Graphics/video Card.

Being a laptop, it is normally Onboard Graphics(embedded in the Motherboard).

Is the laptop new?

 

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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia

 

 

"CrazySaguaro" wrote:

> Has anyone ever seen an error like this? The PC freezes once or twice a day

> with these crazy rectangles on the display. The PC has Windows XP and is a

> Lenovo T60. Windows doesn't even have time to respond and no errors are

> logged in the System Log that I can see. Upon a hard restart, Windows does

> not show the F8 boot message or come up with any errors/popups when I reach

> the desktop.

>

> Pictures of errors:

> http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash1.jpg

> http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash2.jpg

> http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash3.jpg

>

> Thanks for any help.

>

> -Gina

>

[Guest CrazySaguaro]

Re: PC freezes, rectangles shown on display

 

Thanks Malke - that is what I thought. It's a corporate PC, thankfully, so

I'll bring it in to trade for a different one tomorrow. :)

[Guest Paul]

Re: PC freezes, rectangles shown on display

 

CrazySaguaro wrote:

> Thanks Malke - that is what I thought. It's a corporate PC, thankfully, so

> I'll bring it in to trade for a different one tomorrow. :)

 

There have been some recent articles about Nvidia GPU chips failing.

G84 and G86 and possibly others.

 

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/nvidia-g84-g86-bad

 

There is a mapping between chip code name (G84 or G86) and their

marketing names, here.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_Series

 

Paul