So I have had this laptop since 2011 without any problems whatsoever.
Back in july this year we had a lan-party, so I did some thourough cleaning - dusting the internals, reinstalling everything, etcetera. Lan-party was great and had zero issues.
Yesterday (a month later, still no issues) I opened some image with skype, as I do countless times a day, and my screen begon to behave erratically. Artifacts, all to black, all to white, cursor artifacts. After a manual reboot everything returned to normal. Then, a couple minutes after booting, the screen turned to black and I did a manual reboot again.
The windows is laoding splash cam up, but upon completion, the screen went black and all status leds were dead.
I launched up Safe Mode, did a restore, but this didn't work.
Reinstalled windows and all was great, up untill I updated my drivers. I have been able to narrow it down to my graphics driver.
I was thinking it had something to do with resolution, since it's terrible before any drivers, but booting with low-res option in windows didn't help either.
After some research I've come up blank since a lot of topics cover DOA GPU's, a desktop upgrade, or plugging in too many cables. None of this is the case since it's a laptop that has been running flawlessly for the last three years.
The laptop at the time was top-tier so all hardware is stil relevant and I don't believe it's an age problem.
Any thoughts?
Back in july this year we had a lan-party, so I did some thourough cleaning - dusting the internals, reinstalling everything, etcetera. Lan-party was great and had zero issues.
Yesterday (a month later, still no issues) I opened some image with skype, as I do countless times a day, and my screen begon to behave erratically. Artifacts, all to black, all to white, cursor artifacts. After a manual reboot everything returned to normal. Then, a couple minutes after booting, the screen turned to black and I did a manual reboot again.
The windows is laoding splash cam up, but upon completion, the screen went black and all status leds were dead.
I launched up Safe Mode, did a restore, but this didn't work.
Reinstalled windows and all was great, up untill I updated my drivers. I have been able to narrow it down to my graphics driver.
I was thinking it had something to do with resolution, since it's terrible before any drivers, but booting with low-res option in windows didn't help either.
After some research I've come up blank since a lot of topics cover DOA GPU's, a desktop upgrade, or plugging in too many cables. None of this is the case since it's a laptop that has been running flawlessly for the last three years.
The laptop at the time was top-tier so all hardware is stil relevant and I don't believe it's an age problem.
Any thoughts?