I'm not sure if I'm in the right forum. My husband was having issues starting his HP dv-7 laptop a few days ago. It would freeze on startup, prompt to restart and freeze repeatedly, we ran all the diagnostics, came back with a 0601 code (battery related? our laptops are 3 years old and the battery isn't like-new). We decided that it was his hard drive and bought a new one. I put it on my laptop, which is a twin to his except for his upgraded graphics card, and I successfully put Windows 7 back on his HD. Worked perfectly on my laptop. I put it on his, started it up, and the resolution at the desktop appeared like it started in Safe Mode... I couldn't get the resolution to look normal in the settings so I restarted. It froze again at the splash screen and the same issue is popping up again...
Is it possible for a graphics card to do this? I don't feel like that would make sense...
UPDATE: So, after a few weeks and multiple tries to restore Windows 7 from our only recovery disk, we finally succeeded. I successfully downloaded Final Fantasy XIV, Chrome... just the basics. My husband opened up Chrome and searched around the internet. He was watching a video when the screen went black and it turned off. We got this blue screen: http://imgur.com/gdtGelE
So... It's his video card? Is it possible to replace it?
Is it possible for a graphics card to do this? I don't feel like that would make sense...
UPDATE: So, after a few weeks and multiple tries to restore Windows 7 from our only recovery disk, we finally succeeded. I successfully downloaded Final Fantasy XIV, Chrome... just the basics. My husband opened up Chrome and searched around the internet. He was watching a video when the screen went black and it turned off. We got this blue screen: http://imgur.com/gdtGelE
So... It's his video card? Is it possible to replace it?
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