I have been searching online for a week, spending hours upon hours reading up on this, and figured I would post to see if anyone could give me their opinion.
This laptop is 2.5 years old, never any trouble. One day I moved the lcd screen to adjust from glare and bam, black screen, nothing. Then I get BSOD which was the nv4_disp loop. I was not able to get into safe mode until a day later in which I deleted driver and reinstall new one (video card is nvid gego7600). All was good, then as I adjusted the screen, bam, black screen again, and now it's been black ever since. I have taken it to 2 diagnositc people who seemed to know less than me. The first guy said it was bad ram, he put new in, when I came to get my puter, the same thing was happening. I took my laptop completely apart, everything seemed seated tight, I tried different configs with the ram sticks. When I turn on I only get 2 beeps and then nothing, the power light does stay lit. The battery is out, I have tried it with and without. Since I can't get dell diagnostics to work with a black screen, (also no live video when hooked up to monitor) I read to press mute button/power button and then I get the num lock stays lit with flashing scroll and cap locks, then some wierd ass beeping that goes and goes and goes, never stops.
Ok, I had noticed the computer seemed hot on one side lately, but nothing too bad. I guess my question is, do I replace the video card, or go straight for the motherboard/new video card together?? I know a little about computers, but this seems little out of my element, when I have no screen, how do I trouble shoot. The second guy to look at my puter said, oh buy a new one. Sure, ok, if you say so. I have a centrino dual 1.86/128 Nvid GeoGo7600/2gRam/150sata HDD. I am unsure of who my bios company is and what version I have on my puter. Any help would be super grateful, and if I left anything out, lemme know.
Nanci
This laptop is 2.5 years old, never any trouble. One day I moved the lcd screen to adjust from glare and bam, black screen, nothing. Then I get BSOD which was the nv4_disp loop. I was not able to get into safe mode until a day later in which I deleted driver and reinstall new one (video card is nvid gego7600). All was good, then as I adjusted the screen, bam, black screen again, and now it's been black ever since. I have taken it to 2 diagnositc people who seemed to know less than me. The first guy said it was bad ram, he put new in, when I came to get my puter, the same thing was happening. I took my laptop completely apart, everything seemed seated tight, I tried different configs with the ram sticks. When I turn on I only get 2 beeps and then nothing, the power light does stay lit. The battery is out, I have tried it with and without. Since I can't get dell diagnostics to work with a black screen, (also no live video when hooked up to monitor) I read to press mute button/power button and then I get the num lock stays lit with flashing scroll and cap locks, then some wierd ass beeping that goes and goes and goes, never stops.
Ok, I had noticed the computer seemed hot on one side lately, but nothing too bad. I guess my question is, do I replace the video card, or go straight for the motherboard/new video card together?? I know a little about computers, but this seems little out of my element, when I have no screen, how do I trouble shoot. The second guy to look at my puter said, oh buy a new one. Sure, ok, if you say so. I have a centrino dual 1.86/128 Nvid GeoGo7600/2gRam/150sata HDD. I am unsure of who my bios company is and what version I have on my puter. Any help would be super grateful, and if I left anything out, lemme know.
Nanci
