Well, my old trusty HP laptop finally bit the dust. Evidently something went wrong with the on-board video and now it no longer boots into a graphical interface properly. There are artifacts displayed even while in text mode...I've never seen anything like it. Output to an external monitor contains the same artifacting.
This was the strangest thing, one minute everything is working fine. I place the laptop down and go do some laundry, have some lunch, and when I come back the thing has locked up. The power button is still responsive so I do a hard shutdown and the first thing I notice is the vertical green artifacts on the HP splash screen...not good. When in text mode there are vertical pipes (|) scattered all over the screen. Could this be memory that has gone bad? The video controller itself (nVidia 7600 Go)? I have no idea. I allowed the laptop to cool to no avail, when starting any graphical OS the mouse cursor looks fine but the rest of the screen is completely garbled and unusable.
The good thing is that large parts of the laptop are salvageable. The 17" screen should make a nice item to be placed on eBay. I haven't decided how I'm going to try selling it off just yet, but if you would like part or all of it please send me an email at mbs@techbustr.com. I will consider offers. The specs are as follows:
This was the strangest thing, one minute everything is working fine. I place the laptop down and go do some laundry, have some lunch, and when I come back the thing has locked up. The power button is still responsive so I do a hard shutdown and the first thing I notice is the vertical green artifacts on the HP splash screen...not good. When in text mode there are vertical pipes (|) scattered all over the screen. Could this be memory that has gone bad? The video controller itself (nVidia 7600 Go)? I have no idea. I allowed the laptop to cool to no avail, when starting any graphical OS the mouse cursor looks fine but the rest of the screen is completely garbled and unusable.
The good thing is that large parts of the laptop are salvageable. The 17" screen should make a nice item to be placed on eBay. I haven't decided how I'm going to try selling it off just yet, but if you would like part or all of it please send me an email at mbs@techbustr.com. I will consider offers. The specs are as follows:
- Intel Core Duo (1.73GHz I believe)
- 1GB DDR2 667MHz RAM
- nVidia 7600 Go (with aforementioned issues)
- 17" glossy LCD
- The model number is dv8300
- I'll add more info later
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