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Old 10-02-2008
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Laptop shows weird letters

Hey I have a toshiba laptop model: p105 s9312. When I turn it on there are a bunch of red lines then when I go into the bios or windows I get things like this

!&fu#^*&

Weird letters. It also does this when I connect it to a external monitor. Is it the video card and does this one have a removable card
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Old 10-02-2008
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Please run Memtest on your Ram
Mind you, yes I think it's the Video card that causes this
You could also update the bios (reading all precautions first, and done from bootable media)
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Old 10-03-2008
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memtest passed and bios is up to date. Still same problem can't find if this model has a removable video card
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Old 10-03-2008
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Just about all (if not all) laptops don't have removable or updatable Video cards
The Video is actually on the Mobo itself.

I would suggest to reset Bios to defaults

I also had another idea, it could be a faulty HardDrive
Try a Drive Diagnostics on it
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Old 10-04-2008
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I ran a full diagnostic on it and it faild on video memory so I called toshiba and they said that the video card is removable, but the part is well over what I want to pay for $480
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Old 10-04-2008
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ebay the same laptop that might have a bad screen or something. if the price is right buy it for the vid card
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