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| Thread ID: 52014 | 2004-12-07 03:04:00 | Graphics card Packard Bell dying ? | Hotkiwi (5870) | Press F1 |
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| 300398 | 2004-12-07 03:04:00 | Friends, I have a 4 year old Packard Bell easynote Sc notebook. Old thing, I know, but I upgraded memory and built in 60 Gb harddisk. Now I have flickering blue/green irregular lines, sometimes circles on my screen. they are not caused by the screen if you ask me, because they are always somewhere else and may stay hidden behind an opened window. Does this mean my graphics card is dying? everest tells me that I have a ATI Rage Mobility (NEC) 8 MB video adapter. New driver will not help? If it is the graphics card, can I thenthrow the norebook away since I assume it is all on the motherboard? How do I convince my wife I have to reinvest 4000 bucks? Is there hope to keep this one running? Any software tests to recommend? cheers johan |
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| 300399 | 2004-12-07 03:40:00 | Sounds like the RAM to me, especially since you have changed it. Put the old RAM back in and see what happens. Cheers George |
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| 300400 | 2004-12-07 03:43:00 | added 128 MB of RAM 6 months ago. Worked always fine without any prob. Now have two banks of 128 MB in place, the max this thing can have...................... | Hotkiwi (5870) | ||
| 300401 | 2004-12-07 04:00:00 | Try a memory tester. MemTest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) works fairly well. You make a floppy with the downloaded package, then boot from it. If you can't boot from a floppy, try assigning a different amount of shared memory (a BIOS setting, probably in an "Advanced" page). See if the odd artefacts change, or are in a different place. In desperation, remove the extra 128M, and see if the problem goes away. ;-) |
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