Acer Aspire X3470

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Crashed when opening a picture first time, the screen just pixelated. Managed to get it going after an extended self repair and it crashed again, screen again pixelated but this time I get nothing on screen to at all, the screen stays blank, the PC appears to start but does nothing else1?
 
So you have computer activity (fans, lights, hard drives spinning) but no display?

Can you be more specific as to what you did for your self repair?

What is the history of this pc?
Did you just buy it used or new? Have you been using it for a while with no problems?
 

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No display, not even a blue screen and cannot get a bios screen- just nothing.
It gave me the option of going back in the registry but i dont think I took that but it too ages to self repair.
It has a high definition Samsung monitor connected through a HDMI cable. It was a picture is lightroom I was trying to open.
My best guess is the graphics card has gone but looking in I see no sign of overheating etc!
 
Can you try using a vga connection, sometimes hdmi does not like to work if things get a little messed up.

From what I can gather on your PC from a quick serach is that it uses an AMD apu so it is an A6, A8, or A10 processor. These processors have your graphics card built into the cpu. Do you have any warranty on this computer?
 

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Oh History, bought bit used but no dust inside a year back, upgraded the memory from 4 to 8 with 2 further 2gb sticks and that's all. Onboard graphics card used.
It has given up on me when I have tried to do too much and used up all the ram but never pixilated this way, the screen just showed all the colours and died!