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    Garbled screen and machine pretty much dead

    Ok im typing this on an old machine ive plugged in since my laptop is pretty much dead.

    Heres what happened with as much info as i can give.

    It was on normally no problems then suddenly blue screen with nv4_disp being the error, of course that would tell me, ah display driver problem.
    However on reset it wont reach windows, and the screen becomes garbled, also the windows command menu (the one that offers to boot safe mode etc) the text makes no sense and its all garbled again, booting safe mode leaves explorer.exe error 0xc0000022 and i cant login.

    Now im asking for urgent support here as i have basically no idea what todo, its running XP home with service pack 3, also as far as i know its just some generic display device on board laptop stuff, geforce go, so i could only find 1 set of drivers in the past for it. Also im not 100% sure how im going to attempt a remedy if i cannot reach safe mode or windows.
    Any hel;p would be ace, ill try monitor this thread as much as possible from life support pc hehe
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    #2
    Sounds like your graphics hardware has problems. Does the laptop have dedicated RAM for the graphics or is it shared with the main RAM?

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      #3
      Dedicated as far as im aware, god knows, ive tried a few things since but nothing, just hangs now on windows loading screen, everything still scrambled, i can reach safe mode now on my account but now administrator, that still gives explore.exe error...
      but yeah maybe the gfx has just died inside, i think its still under warrenty....but im more worried about my data, its all my uni work etc....i guess i can remove the hdd pretty easily, but are there any things on the market i can plug it in to and backup the stuff to this machine etc?

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        #4
        Depending on the type of connector on the laptop HDD it might just plug straight into a spare socket in your old computer. Easy to get the data off then.

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          #5
          Youre 100% right i just hooked it up with a straight sata cable and backed up, its going back to company thanks to warrenty on friday so hopefully should be fixed...at least my datas all backed up just incase htey do the typical tech restore job heh

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