Cephas
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So, a while ago my lappy was giving me "Display driver AMD stopped responding and has successfully recovered" every time I stressed it too much. This was always followed with a 10 second freeze followed by the crashing of any graphics-intensive programs and sometimes even a BSOD.
Through help on this and another site I ruled out overheating or a faulty driver being the cause, but whilst I was still looking for a solution, lappy suffered a particularly dramatic BSOD with lots of loud noise and pixellation. Since then, this happens every time she starts up. If I try to start normally, these 4 stages will loop continuously, though I can start up in safe mode but the unbearable artifacting pervades past the boot and makes it difficult to do much.
This happened a few months and getting discouraged I gave up, but I now want to solve this problem once and for all, even if that means I have to bin the old girl. I'm not great with computers, but I suspect it's a GPU failure, in which case I have no idea what to do. Either way, it would be good to get some of your opinions which undoubtedly are gotta more educated than mine.
Cheers
Through help on this and another site I ruled out overheating or a faulty driver being the cause, but whilst I was still looking for a solution, lappy suffered a particularly dramatic BSOD with lots of loud noise and pixellation. Since then, this happens every time she starts up. If I try to start normally, these 4 stages will loop continuously, though I can start up in safe mode but the unbearable artifacting pervades past the boot and makes it difficult to do much.
This happened a few months and getting discouraged I gave up, but I now want to solve this problem once and for all, even if that means I have to bin the old girl. I'm not great with computers, but I suspect it's a GPU failure, in which case I have no idea what to do. Either way, it would be good to get some of your opinions which undoubtedly are gotta more educated than mine.
Cheers