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I was playing WOW when all of a sudden my screen became extremely pixelated and froze. I restarted my laptop and was able to surf the net but when trying to log on WOW it did the same thing. Now my laptop won't even show a display, I have tried restarting but just getting this ghosting affect on screen.
Is it my graphics card? If so, can this be replaced?
Name: perez Date: January 3, 2009 at 01:17:00 Pacific
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I have waited for the laptop to completely cool down and when I turn it on the screen does this weird ghosting affect in black and white.
I understand that graphic cards are usually intergrated onto the mother boared on laptops but if the graphics card is bad then would I have to replace the whole mother too?
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Name: OtheHill Date: January 3, 2009 at 08:54:09 Pacific
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Try an external monitor to determine if it is the graphics for sure. If it is then try updating the drivers for it. Perform those steps before considering a new motherboard.
Some laptops do have a modular graphic chip that can be swapped out. These are definitely the minority.
You may be interested in this thread. Read all the posts. Seems there is a problem with that model that causes overheating, which damages components.
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