I was playing WoW last week when the game froze up on me and since then I've had excessive tearing on my screen, frequent lockups, and a few blue screens. I've run memtest, reformatted hard drive, and taken apart the laptop and cleaned with compressed air, but the effects are still happening. I have made a video to show exactly what is going on:
Link to Movie
There are horizontal bars spaced .25 inches or so vertically all over the screen and if you see in the beginning of the video the POST screen displays weird artifacts and replaces characters with random symbols.
If you want to read a post by me on another forums describing most everything in detail, you can view that here: User name Goldygoldthegoldfish
So what graphics cards are available for my laptop, and how likely do you think replacing mine will solve my issues? Would I be better off trying to sell my laptop? I'm on a sort of tight budget now, but would rather spend $300 fixing my laptop than building a new computer (case/mobo/cpu/gpu/ram/psu).
Link to Movie
There are horizontal bars spaced .25 inches or so vertically all over the screen and if you see in the beginning of the video the POST screen displays weird artifacts and replaces characters with random symbols.
If you want to read a post by me on another forums describing most everything in detail, you can view that here: User name Goldygoldthegoldfish
So what graphics cards are available for my laptop, and how likely do you think replacing mine will solve my issues? Would I be better off trying to sell my laptop? I'm on a sort of tight budget now, but would rather spend $300 fixing my laptop than building a new computer (case/mobo/cpu/gpu/ram/psu).
