Laptop keeps crashing on start up, help please

S0litaire

Now that you come to mention it... The same sort of thing happened with my old DELL6200

The screen runs fine for 30 seconds to 4 mins before the screen start to show flashing blocks of colour...

But If i leave it flashing for a few seconds longer and reboot, the laptop then runs fine!! (the Nvidia card in this laptop is detachable and the cooling in it is terrible!) but saying that once it's running it runs fine for hours if not days on end! ^_^

paul_and_shark

cit_k wrote: »

It will get it working (assuming the damage is not to bad already and the seller can do what they claim).

But they dont seem to mention warranty, it could re-occur a few months later, many people who do offer warranties only offer a short one, probably because they know its going to fail again.

How long ago did your warranty run out, if its less than a year ago you can still get this sorted.

Make sure your BIOS is upto date, as one of the revisions helps stall this issue by altering the fan profile.

For 85 quid, you could probably get a replacement motherboard after a while on ebay (quick search showed they are about 100 at the mo, but often come along cheaper) which has intel graphics, and would not suffer from this problem again.

Check your warranty, see if it ran out less than a year ago, as their was a class action suit, I can pm you the details if need be.

The warranty ran out nearly 2 years ago, it will not even start up now and just crashes as the Dell logo is loading so can not check anything now !!!!!!!!!!

paul_and_shark

S0litaire wrote: »

Now that you come to mention it... The same sort of thing happened with my old DELL6200

The screen runs fine for 30 seconds to 4 mins before the screen start to show flashing blocks of colour...

But If i leave it flashing for a few seconds longer and reboot, the laptop then runs fine!! (the Nvidia card in this laptop is detachable and the cooling in it is terrible!) but saying that once it's running it runs fine for hours if not days on end! ^_^

Mine has been like this for a while, but has now given up i think and will not run at all now !:mad:

S0litaire

paul_and_shark wrote: »

Mine has been like this for a while, but has now given up i think and will not run at all now !:mad:

This laptop is nearly 9 years old!!

It's a great 15" screen (1200x1600) bigger resolution than most laptops these days!!

T_T_2

They aren't called 'lines' they are called 'artifacts' but that doesn't matter

As others have said, it is most definately hardware related, I don't see this being related to a virus. It isn't entirely uncommon for the ribbon wiring that connects the graphics card to wear over time, a very plausible reason for artifacts to display on start-up. The laptop is probably shutting down shortly afterwards as it is pushing the job of graphics rendering onto the motherboard, a job it isn't designed to do long term in tandem with its own jobs.

How long have you owned the laptop and who did you buy it from?

RussJK

paul_and_shark wrote: »

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Technical information:
STOP: 0x00000050

Generally page faults can be from "Faulty hardware, a buggy system service, antivirus software, and a corrupted NTFS volume",
and the STOP code is display related:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc957625.aspx

Combined with the artifacts (or arty-fi cats! :P) - it's likely a hardware fault with the video card as others have stated, which is why I've butted out. Not malware related at all.

T_T_2

RussJK wrote: »

Generally page faults can be from "Faulty hardware, a buggy system service, antivirus software, and a corrupted NTFS volume",
and the STOP code is display related:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc957625.aspx

Combined with the artifacts (or arty-fi cats! :P)

How dare you correct my spelling! I was in the middle of a self-righteous rant. (All corrected now).

RussJK

T_T wrote: »

How dare you correct my spelling! I was in the middle of a self-righteous rant. (All corrected now).

I was rifling through google images, hoping to find a sufficiently arty-looking cat... too late now I suppose

T_T_2

Just scanned back through this thread and saw that you have identified your laptop as having an nVidia gfx card. In that case it almost certainly is a hardware issue, and a pretty common one at that. Find out what model of card you have and take a look here... http://www.nvidiadefect.com/

Toxteth_OGrady

[LANGUAGE POLICE] Because I'm bored [/LANGUAGE POLICE]

In Britain, the preferred form given in dictionaries is artefact, though the other often appears as an alternative. The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors firmly suggests spelling it with an e, as does Bill Bryson in The Penguin Dictionary for Writers and Editors. However, the style guide of The Economist, with a large international circulation, suggests using artifact, since it is acceptable, it says, both to American and British readers. Americans prefer the i form by a large majority, but not exclusively so — newspaper practice seems to vary considerably, some insisting on the i form, others being more relaxed about it.

The spelling with i seems to have been around for rather more than a century, though my impression is that it only started to become common in the US from the 1920s on, and in the UK much more recently still (American usage has had considerable impact on British, one reason why I didn’t spot my inconsistent spelling).

The form in i was obviously influenced by artifice and artificial, both of which contain the same Latin word arte, by or using art, which is also the basis for artefact. So, if we’re arguing from etymology, artefact wins without a contest, but then to be consistent we would have to write arteficial and artefice. The confusion of spelling actually goes back to classical times, since the direct ancestor of artifice and artificial is Latin artificium, a thing made by skill or art.

For most people, the word is a technical term which they encounter rarely enough that they are neither sure how to spell it, nor care very much about which form to use. The difference is minor, after all, and the risk of confusion small.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-art1.htm