Graphic card problem

[diane3]

Hello

I have a sony vaio laptop VGN-FZ31E with graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT GPU , windows 7 and now after 4 years I have a problem i got red/pink lines all over my laptop. When i check my display adapters on device manager it says that i got Standard VGA Graphics Adapter I uninstalled it and download my graphics card with is nvidia its working until i put videos on and it stuck it shows blue screen and then shut downs and i need to open it on safe mode. I really dont know if you can help me with this problem, but if you can please email me i cant send you some pictures from my laptop so you can identify the problem.

 

[profkefah]

download hw monitor
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wuid0ry1ddwjg7k
then upload image from it here

 

[diane3]

here is the image !

 

[profkefah]

temperature of the vga is too high
also cpu temp is high
so try cleaning your laptop from dust
and if u can buy laptop cooler

 

[diane3]

hey I already have a cooler and I think my laptop is clean from the dust I just have this problem with the red lines. Is there any other solution ?? I also try to format it several times first with vista then windows 7 and then windows 8 finally I installed again windows 7 but it again have the red lines. I tried to uninstall the standard vga graphic card and download the nvidia it works until i put a video then i have a blue screen with error 60! here is a picture of how my screen is look like.

 

[profkefah]

ok
upload an image from device manager
display adapters

 

[diane3]

 

[Sunius]

You think it's clean? Why so? Did you clean it recently?

 

[diane3]

yes i cleaned it recently ! the problem was already there thats why i cleaned it! but the red lines reamed the same.

 

[profkefah]

try this driver
http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/VGN-FZ31E/downloads/Preinstalled_Drivers_3633

 

[diane3]

I had tried this already. I had tried also to download my driver from Nvidia's website. But as i said earlier after this installation it is working properly until i watch a video then i have a blue screen it shut downs and then I open it again and everything is as it was with red lines.

 

[diane3]

any other solutions?? :/

 

[Sunius]

Usually, those lines appear from damage caused by overheating. I doubt really you can do anything apart from buying another computer .

 

[diane3]

if i try and buy another graphic card can i open my laptop and change it?

 

[Sunius]

If it was a desktop, you would be able to do that. However, in most laptops, the graphics card is soldered to the motherboard so you would have no way of taking it out.

 

[diane3]

Thank you anw! I am so disappointed now, I thought there would be a solution, because my laptop never had a heating problem and am 60% sure that this not from over hitting but from something else. All this happen after i had installed some updates and restart it ! i tried to do system restore but it is not working

 

[Mousemonkey]

any other solutions?? :/

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