laptop video problem

[wiper]

My laptop came up with a wierd problem last night, never seen anything like it and the description is so broad that google is no help. So basically it locked up on me and when I restarted the display became corrupt at the windows loading screen but only a little bit, the logo and the bar fade in fine but then the blue bar bounces left and right, then once I get into windows the screen has large vertical black lines even spaced all the way across the screen and the display is locked into vga compatibility mode (640x480 8bit). Now at first I thought my lcd was going bad but the output to an external monitor is the same, now here's the wierd part...when I boot up linux everything looks fine (1280x1024 32bit) so I figured windows must be messed up so I did a repair install and no go. No big deal though, repair installs don't always fix everything so I installed a new copy of windows and still the same problem. So at that point I was pissed to say the least so I wiped the drive and did a fresh install, same problem. The thing that makes me mad is that it works fine in linux and if the only application I use (delorme street atlas and gps) worked in linux I'd be fine.

So...anyone have any ideas? cause I'm stumped.

 

[BigDave]

Do you use X Windows in Linux? or are you strictly at the command prompt? You may have a corrupt BIOS. Try resetting the BIOS. Not sure what the steps are for your laptop, but remove the main battery, then either remove the clock battery, or reset the jumper that clears the BIOS. If that doesn't work, you might try flashing the video BIOS and the motherboard BIOS if your manuf has them available.

My laptop came up with a wierd problem last night, never seen anything like it and the description is so broad that google is no help. So basically it locked up on me and when I restarted the display became corrupt at the windows loading screen but only a little bit, the logo and the bar fade in fine but then the blue bar bounces left and right, then once I get into windows the screen has large vertical black lines even spaced all the way across the screen and the display is locked into vga compatibility mode (640x480 8bit). Now at first I thought my lcd was going bad but the output to an external monitor is the same, now here's the wierd part...when I boot up linux everything looks fine (1280x1024 32bit) so I figured windows must be messed up so I did a repair install and no go. No big deal though, repair installs don't always fix everything so I installed a new copy of windows and still the same problem. So at that point I was pissed to say the least so I wiped the drive and did a fresh install, same problem. The thing that makes me mad is that it works fine in linux and if the only application I use (delorme street atlas and gps) worked in linux I'd be fine.

So...anyone have any ideas? cause I'm stumped.