I've had my laptop for quite awhile. Up until recent, it's been working fine. Now, whenever I boot it up, I get colored lines

Pieman8900 · Mar 17, 2015

I've had my laptop for quite awhile. Up until recent, it's been working fine. Now, whenever I boot it up, I get colored lines going horizontally and sometimes rectangles going vertically. Sometimes it does start (rarely) but within a couple minutes it lags severely and the screen turns black. I am honestly clueless of to why it does this. It's a Lenova Thinkpad T61. As far as I know, I don't have any viruses.

Kyle_L · Mar 19, 2015

This sounds like a hardware problem with the LCD. If the Hard Drive is an MBR drive (If it is not Windows 8, it probably is), unplug it and hook it up to another pc to see if it boots. If it Blue Screens a driver related error and NOT *a crucial thread has been terminated* then it tells you at least it boots. Also try hooking up an external monitor to the PC and see if that helps. Hook it up to another PC and look in the C:\Windows\MiniDump folder for dump files, and in C:\Windows for a "MEMORY.DMP" file. Thanks!

aford10 · Mar 19, 2015

Are you seeing the colored lines right when it starts up (during the POST sequence)? If so, that's a dead give away. It sounds like you've got a bad display.

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