Beep and restart, multiple distorted screens, cannot see bios either

[er_amitthakur]

Hi,

I have my hp laptop in trouble. I had windows vista and laptop started proper earlier but I had a loud beep every time my laptop start and then my system hang. After some time I can work earlier.

But now the laptop has gone completely dumb. It shows me the screen with six partitioned displays over the monitor all in flickering patterns like the below image:

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As can see below there are multiple small vista screens here. Vista also detects this reduction in screen size and adjusted the screen size to small screens. I can figure out some buttons and shut down:

Please help. Does this mean my video card is gone? What can be the worst that might have happened to this machine? please help.

Mine is HP Dv2714tx. Does this machine has the graphics card onboard. The graphics card is Nvidia GeForce Go 7300. Is my motherboard spoilt?

 

[er_amitthakur]

sorry the graphics card is : NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS discrete 128 MB dedicated

 

[cjl]

I would guess that your video card is toast.

 

[InfidelPimp]

Mine is HP Dv2714tx. Does this machine has the graphics card onboard. The graphics card is Nvidia GeForce Go 7300. Is my motherboard spoilt?

If it has a graphics card, then, no... it doesn't have onboard graphics. Which is a good thing, since you probably don't need to replace the motherboard, like you would if your onboard graphics started falting like this.

I would guess that your video card is toast.

Or it's wiggled a little bit loose from the PCI socket, or something like that. Definitely a hardware fault of some sort related to the video card when you see the BIOS screens are garbled.