i have just bought a sony vaio vgn-fz21e but it has a wierd problem
upon boot on the win7/vista loading screen the screen seems fine,but when it gets in windows the screen is all distorted sorta snowy but static effect,i get this in bios too(it seems to be ontop of the screen,overlaying it so to speak) but the boot screen is fine so im unsure as to wether its the screen,the graphics card or something else
it also defaults to the lowest res available and 4 bit colour scheme
i like this lappy but im not wanting to fork out for a new screen if its the graphics chip thats gone
it seemed a little ho so i stripped it down ,cleaned the fan and heatshied,and reapplied some thermal pasted but other than it seeming to run cooler now it had no effect
any ideas guys,or is it for ebay as faulty
upon boot on the win7/vista loading screen the screen seems fine,but when it gets in windows the screen is all distorted sorta snowy but static effect,i get this in bios too(it seems to be ontop of the screen,overlaying it so to speak) but the boot screen is fine so im unsure as to wether its the screen,the graphics card or something else
it also defaults to the lowest res available and 4 bit colour scheme
i like this lappy but im not wanting to fork out for a new screen if its the graphics chip thats gone
it seemed a little ho so i stripped it down ,cleaned the fan and heatshied,and reapplied some thermal pasted but other than it seeming to run cooler now it had no effect
any ideas guys,or is it for ebay as faulty