Posted: 8/2/2008 3:40:29 PM EDT
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guys i have a strange situation- a friend of mine's labtops been actin funky when its loading up, it gets JUST before the login screen, the screen goes black. the computer will only load up into safe mode. when he tried to install pc protector, it wouldn't it said, "contact tha administrator LOLLL!!" he ran spybot, malwarebytes, and regcure, nothin. nothin's worked. he thought it was malware, nothin he's done is working. is it a fried graphics card? no? thanks for your help guys! |
alright guys he tried it, it booted and all, and then he installed the video driver again from nvidia (nvidia GEforce 7800GTX) - then he started it again, and- the same thing happens. he assumes his graphics card is fried, another friend of mine said, you might as well reformat. |
If his GFX card is toasted, a wipe/reinstall won't help. Though it might be worthwhile to try to narrow it down to a hardware issue. |
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he hasn't done anything else yet- yes it works fine in safemode |
You cant boot into the diagnostics. F12 select diagnostics and run it. Its probably software related though since it works in safe mode just fine. Did you install a newer driver or just let it re detect the old one? |
he unintalled the driver - then while in safemode downloaded a new one |