DON'T FORMAT b4 you throw another test vid card into it! If the card is all that's on the fritz then a straight swapout/driver unload/reinstall will fix all.

Maybe even jump into safe mode 1st & reinstall vid drivers...

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Hopefully going to try a test card, right now I can't see much on the screen because of those lines. I'm on my iPhone now.

Might take it somewhere if I get time.

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Boot into safe mode, unload your video drivers .. reboot, and see what happens.

If it lets you into Windows, re-install latest video card driver.

Possibly that the video card is indeed dead, which would potentially cause a BSOD and the wierd lines.

Try a diff video card before format.

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How do you do that in safe mode and vista?
I can't find it. I thought it was under the advanced display settings. But i can't see anything to uninstall the driver

I go to

Control panel
Display settings
Advanced settings
Adaptor properties
Driver

Nothing helpful in there

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Anything in Add/Remove? Don't run Vista but i suspect it would be Device Manager, Display, Right Click // Un-install.

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Did that

It doesn't work and as soon as I log in it reinstalls the old driver automatically

So I guess the card is rooted then

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Not sure dude, only run vista on my gf's laptop, which i hardly ever use, sorry...

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got it sorted. cheers for all the advice

turns out it was a rooted video card.

got another one today, and also bought myself a 1TB hard drive :P


just having a small problem now with the settings, vista is running in standard mode rather than the aero theme??

installing the new driver now

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"UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" BSOD started coming up on my dad's laptop this morning, I've tried running chkdsk /r through the windows recovery console, but it gets to about 30% and says "The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems", any other suggestions? It's his work laptop, so I need to recover all the data before reformatting....

Josh

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Take the drive out, put it in a caddy and copy data to another computer.

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