Help My Laptop Is Kaput.

[scatmanjohn]

Hello.... I have one almighty fault on my laptop.

It was working fine yesterday, turned it all off as usual last night.

This morning its seems close to death

When i try to boot it up i get lots of red blocks in rows (sometimes yellow) then the screen goes blank and that s it.

The only way to get it to work is to boot it up in VGA mode and even then the display has lines running from top to bottom.

Also if i boot it up in VGA mode and try to change the display settings it just goes back to the rows of red blocks.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

The laptop is a fujitsu siemens amilo m1437g.

Its under warranty but if there is something i can try that would be better than having to get them to repair it.

Thanks

 

[daved1]

try downloading and reinstalling the video drivers from the fujitsu website

http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/support/downloads_1.html

dave

 

[shenks]

If you have screen corruption in VGA mode, i.e. safe mode, then it is unlikely that downloading drivers would help - VGA mode is (to all intents and purposes) a driverless mode since it replicates the conditions that exist prior to an OS being loaded.

You could try re-installing Windows but if you get the coloured blocks even before Windows has booted into the desktop then it is highly likely to be a hardware fault. Therefore I think you would be looking at a laptop warranty repair in this situation.