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Integrated Graphics Malfunction

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February 7, 2014 10:40:35 AM

While watching an episode of a T.V show, my graphics went all crazy. The outlines of everything have red dots on them, and there are blue lines horizontally across my screen and everything has turned a neon blue that hurts my eyes, and there are grey lines running diagonally across the screen. This causes a kind of flickering.
The system shows no errors and I have tried to update the drivers and have done a system restore. Nothing has worked so far.
I tried connecting the laptop to another monitor and it runs fine on that.
I us a program called http://f.lux that fixes the neon blue because it is designed to remove blue from the screen anyway.(I had this before this happened for a few months. I uninstalled it just to be safe, but that was worse so I have it again now.)

ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics

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February 7, 2014 11:24:28 AM

If that the case then all you really need to do is install a graphics card which is fairly easy and inexpensive. Assuming your motherboard as a PCI-e slot (replaced the older AGP slot), then you can just buy the following nVidia GeForce 210 for $17 after a $10 rebate.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

When you boot up the PC go into the BIOS and look for a option to select the graphics card. It's different from motherboard to motherboard, but when you find it you should set it to "auto detect" or "PCI-e" (or something similar) so that the motherboard will use the newly installed graphics card rather than the motherboard's integrated graphics.
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February 7, 2014 11:26:55 AM

Actually, before you do that, you should check the video cable. Unplug it at both ends and plug it back in / try a different cable if you have a spare or can borrow it. That way you don't need to waste money on a newer graphics card if the real culprit is the video cable.
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February 8, 2014 2:48:09 AM

Can I do this on my laptop?

[Edit]: I updated the question to better describe what's happening.
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February 8, 2014 8:28:03 PM

I must have missed that part where you mentioned "laptop".

Since it is a laptop, then what I stated will not work since it is specific to desktops only

It seems the laptop's LCD screen is going bad and needs to be replaced.
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