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Windows Vista: Display snowy then dies after upgrade
Display snowy then dies after upgrade
by atlcanuck - 2/20/07 12:15 AMI have an HP Pavilion zt3000 laptop, formerly with XP SP2, and when I upgraded to Vista today, everything seemed to be working fine until...
During the process the screen automatically resized itself to the lowest resolution, then went fuzzy/snowy, kinda like when the cable is out.
I restarted in safe mode, and everything was fine. Each time I tried to restart in normal mode, fuzzy/snowy screen.
Now, it appears my laptop screen has died completely. Murdered by Vista. It is black, and even with the Fn F4 it does nothing but turn the external monitor off. The system seems to operate fine (with the usual bugs) when plugged into the external monitor, but now my laptop is of no use without its screen.
Anyone else encounter this or know of anyway to revive my screen? Thanks!
Sadly this 3+ year old laptop...
by R. Proffitt
- 2/20/07 8:16 AM
In reply to: Display snowy then dies after upgrade by atlcanuck
I wonder if you ever dusted it out. I find laptop owners to not be aware that lint and dust build up and the overheating that results kills the chips inside (not Vista.)
Bob
Nvidia?
by BeamerMT - 2/20/07 4:37 PM In reply to: Display snowy then dies after upgrade by atlcanuckI think i know what you are talking about. Is it something like a wierd moving black/white gridish thing? Its hard to explain but when i was testing Beta 2, the basic drivers that came from microsoft worked fine, but when i installed the beta drivers for my nvidia card, it would do that wierd thing until i installed the drivers in safemode and then restarted in normal mode. it was really wierd. Not sure if its what your talking about but it could be your graphics drivers..
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