Notebook GPU dead?

[CoDrift]

Ok, so I have a Aspire 7520, recently something weird started happening. At bios and windows boot screen, I see screen tearing and glitches on bottom half of it, later the windows logo disappears! And I see nothing, screen is off, but the mobo and hdd is still ON.
If I leave the Laptop off for an hour, then suddenly it works fine for 5 mins, and then I gave up and put it in the shelf for a month. After, it worked fine for a couple of days until it happened again.
SafeMode is inaccessible bcz, as soon I enter it, The PC suddenly dies, no matter how long it's been off!
So, now I placed it in my shelf again!
NOT A DRIVER ISSUE, ALL DRIVERS WERE UP TO DATE
Specs, if needed:
-AMD Athlon x64
-GeForce 7000M 256MB
-2x 1TB Samsung Spinpoint HDDs
Looking forward to a solution 😀

 

[atomicWAR]

Just because your drivers are up to date does not mean it isn't a driver issue. Have you run DDU yet and reinstalled drivers? If no do that...of course you can't see to do it. So yeah if it works again do it.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Have you tried an external monitor with any luck? If no luck there and DDU has been run with the same results you have now then you have a failing GPU. Honestly this is likely the issue if your symptoms are showing up at boot where your GPU is running the most basic driver. Still run DDU if you can I have seen it cure some pretty weird GPU/display issues.

 

[CoDrift]

Just because your drivers are up to date does not mean it isn't a driver issue. Have you run DDU yet and reinstalled drivers? If no do that...of course you can't see to do it. So yeah if it works again do it.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Have you tried an external monitor with any luck? If no luck there and DDU has been run with the same results you have now then you have a failing GPU. Honestly this is likely the issue if your symptoms are showing up at boot where your GPU is running the most basic driver. Still run DDU if you can I have seen it cure some pretty weird GPU/display issues.

Have tried many drivers, but never ran it on basic. Will see, though I've reinstalled windows over 50 times already hoping for a cure. If not, am just thinking of getting a mxm2 card 😀

 

[photonboy]

BIOS issues mean that it's not related to Windows at all since Windows (and drivers etc) all load past the BIOS (Power On Self Test) stage. It happens like this:

1) Turn PC on
2) loads POST (Power On Self Test) to run diagnostics, then
3) starts loading Windows from the boot drive (thus anything BEFORE this stage has nothing to do with software on a drive)

So it can't be software thus it must be HARDWARE (and non-fixable).

 

[CoDrift]

BIOS issues mean that it's not related to Windows at all since Windows (and drivers etc) all load past the BIOS (Power On Self Test) stage.

So it can't be software thus it must be HARDWARE (and non-fixable).

So, off to the store I go to get a mxm2 card! 😛