TheSlee Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Hi, My laptop has been running fine for the past week, however, today when I tried to run a game on it, after a while the graphics mess up and I get blue, fuzzy blobs all over the screen, then when I exit the game, there are dotted lines down the screen. When I checked the HDD, it was quite hot. I am not sure what the problem is for sure, but I think that the HDD is on it's way out. Can anyone help? Quote
Guest Wolfeymole Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Shut all programs down Slee and go into All Programs, Accessories and then Command Prompt. At the flashing underscore type chkdsk This will then indicate if you have any bad sectors on the hdd. Quote
TheSlee Posted December 3, 2008 Author Posted December 3, 2008 I defragged the disk, ran a chkdsk (with only 1 error being that some free space was being registered as 'allocated') this error was fixed. I then tried again and the same thing occured when I ran a game. Quote
Guest Wolfeymole Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 Run chkdsk again but this time with the F switch like so; chkdsk /f If the problem happens again tell us your system specs ie; cpu, memory and gpu size. Quote
Dalo Harkin Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 Sounds like the GPU rather than the HDD - if the lappy is getting too hot then thats what happens to the screen when a GPU is overheating. Quote Intel Q6600 @ 4Ghz (Watercooled)Asus P5K premium black pearl4GB OCZ Reaper 8500260GTX Join Free PC Help - Register here Donations are welcome - here PC Build We are all members helping other members.Please return here where you may be able to help someone else.After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs.
TheSlee Posted December 4, 2008 Author Posted December 4, 2008 well, I have a pentium 3.2 GHz processor (single core), 1 GB RAM and 256 MB dedicated graphics card and I did not get any errors when I used chkdsk /f. I thought that it may be the monitor, but I cannot test this theory as I cannot plug it in to an external monitor. Quote
Plastic Nev Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 I tend to agree with Dalo that the graphics card (GPU) is overheating rather than there being a fault on your hard drive. Check all the fans are running, also that there is no dust clogging up the system, a Little difficult with a laptop I know but if there isn't enough air going round that could be all there is wrong. If you are going to remove covers, disconnect from any mains adapter and remove the battery before opening it up. Quote Need help with your computer problems? Then why not join Free PC Help. Register here. If Free PC Help has helped you then please consider a donation. Click here We are all members helping other members. Please return here where you may be able to help someone else. After all, no one knows everything and you may have the answer that someone needs. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I have installed Windows, now how do I install the curtains? 😄
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