I have a Sager NP8150 laptop that I've owned for almost 2 years now with a Radeon 6990m graphics card. Today, the screen started flashing and flickering random colors. Along with this the screen even split in 2 (as in the rightmost portion moved over to the left side of the screen). After doing this for a second and going even more crazy when I tried to move my mouse it just went to a screen with lines. I rebooted and could not even get the display to come up on my laptop. I plugged it into the HDMI connected to my TV and it displayed but was still acting goofy.
So after this, I decided to try and unplug/replug in the graphics card as I heard that it could help. Since then I've been able to start up my laptop and use it for up to hours with no problems, but eventually it starts acting like it did before with the screen flickering/flashing/splitting/etc...
I also tried to uninstall and reinstall the driver but it didn't seem to help. Which brings me to another weird problem which is when I try to open Catalyst I get the message "No amd graphics driver is installed, or the amd driver is not functioning properly".
So is my graphics card on its last leg or is there a chance it could be software related?
So after this, I decided to try and unplug/replug in the graphics card as I heard that it could help. Since then I've been able to start up my laptop and use it for up to hours with no problems, but eventually it starts acting like it did before with the screen flickering/flashing/splitting/etc...
I also tried to uninstall and reinstall the driver but it didn't seem to help. Which brings me to another weird problem which is when I try to open Catalyst I get the message "No amd graphics driver is installed, or the amd driver is not functioning properly".
So is my graphics card on its last leg or is there a chance it could be software related?
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