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Thread ID: 113169	2010-10-08 04:25:00	need help - laptop + vid	Cato (6936)	Press F1

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1142571	2010-10-08 04:25:00	ok. System crashed, blank screen. Hard restart, window will not load. Safe mode worked but not anymore. Ubuntu gives me a horrid corrupted screen, that has the display twisted (right side of the screen showing on the left from mid way point). Top and bottom look like garbled static. I can no longer start X. My guess is that it's either a blown gpu or video memory. There is no way to fix this, correct? It's an hp3020tx, geforce 8400 card with 512 dedicated, i think. I tried to run the self test from the post screen, it freezes at 20% on the hdd test, although i assume this may be because of ext partitions and unrelates to my problems. Any ideas? :pf1mobmini:	Cato (6936)
1142572	2010-10-08 04:33:00	Safemode has decided to work now...	Cato (6936)
1142573	2010-10-08 05:49:00	copy all your data off now, before it goes again	gary67 (56)
1142574	2010-10-08 07:53:00	what gary said... then reformat, you want to be sure it's not just a software/driver problem	jareemon (5207)
1142575	2010-10-08 09:54:00	Geforce 8 Mobile series are known to be faulty from a bad design.	Agent_24 (57)
1142576	2010-10-08 18:45:00	what gary said... then reformat, you want to be sure it's not just a software/driver problem Can't be a driver issue as it's having issues in multiple operating systems. Looks like it's time for a new lappy. :(	Cato (6936)
1142577	2010-10-08 23:26:00	if it is the GPU failed, you should be able to get it repaired under warranty and the new chips are supposed to have had the design flaw fixed	Agent_24 (57)
1142578	2010-10-09 04:22:00	if it is the GPU failed, you should be able to get it repaired under warranty and the new chips are supposed to have had the design flaw fixed The laptop is over two years old, so no warranty for me.	Cato (6936)
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