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About 10 minutes ago, my laptop screen suddenly went black as if the laptop had turned off, but then suddenly came back on. This only happened after I had clicked on my Photoshop, so I thought nothing of it, until tiny red and green bars started showing up on my screen, distorting it. They went away for about 30 seconds, enough time to pull up Google Chrome, when it did the same black screen. Screen popped back on and I looked at chrome to see it all distorted and such. Parts of the program were duplicated distortions to the left of it, and there were the same green and red bars inhabiting the screen.

 

I restarted my computer manually, and when the start up screen came on, the normal white loading bars and text were turned red and doing abnormal flashing. The windows logo appeared and there were more red and green bars across the logo. I went to the log-on screen to see any difference and suddenly part of the log-on screen became distorted. Basically, part of my account icon left it's place and went to my parent's icon and the rest of my icon became distorted. I restarted the computer again.

 

At the boot screen, it asked me if I wanted to restart in safe mode, normally, or to the last point where there was good conditions. I didn't choose, as I was too busy staring at the flashing red bars behind the text. I just shut it down.

 

I know it isn't a virus, since I scanned my computer an hour ago and haven't gone anywhere untrustworthy. I think it may be a hardware problem, as I was holding the laptop in an awkward position beforehand. I have held it like that before, though, so I'm not completely sure.

 

Any help with this would be great, as my laptop has ALL my primary stuff on it, and it'd be a bad blow to lose it.

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Your graphics/video card is dying. You should check and see what is causing it. If your laptop is not overheating, it's probably just plain dying.

 

If it's already doing it even before a boot, you might want to get it checked. It's probably frying somewhere on its circuitry. You probably just need to get it replaced.

 

You don't have to worry about your data getting lost, just take out the hard drive if your laptop does die and put it into an external enclosure.

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The card nor the laptop are that old at all, which is strange. Not an overheating problem either. :/ I'll get my laptop checked, either way. I find it strange that it came in a sudden burst, though. Oh well, weird thing is it's completely fine, now. Using it to type this message. :/

 

Thanks for the suggestion, Mia.

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About 10 minutes ago' date=' my laptop screen suddenly went black as if the laptop had turned off, but then suddenly came back on. This only happened after I had clicked on my Photoshop, so I thought nothing of it, until tiny red and green bars started showing up on my screen, distorting it. They went away for about 30 seconds, enough time to pull up Google Chrome, when it did the same black screen. Screen popped back on and I looked at chrome to see it all distorted and such. Parts of the program were duplicated distortions to the left of it, and there were the same green and red bars inhabiting the screen.

 

I restarted my computer manually, and when the start up screen came on, the normal white loading bars and text were turned red and doing abnormal flashing. The windows logo appeared and there were more red and green bars across the logo. I went to the log-on screen to see any difference and suddenly part of the log-on screen became distorted. Basically, part of my account icon left it's place and went to my parent's icon and the rest of my icon became distorted. I restarted the computer again.

 

At the boot screen, it asked me if I wanted to restart in safe mode, normally, or to the last point where there was good conditions. I didn't choose, as I was too busy staring at the flashing red bars behind the text. I just shut it down.

 

I know it isn't a virus, since I scanned my computer an hour ago and haven't gone anywhere untrustworthy. I think it may be a hardware problem, as I was holding the laptop in an awkward position beforehand. I have held it like that before, though, so I'm not completely sure.

 

Any help with this would be great, as my laptop has ALL my primary stuff on it, and it'd be a bad blow to lose it.

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Not all virus programs pick viruses up. Some hackers can pass viruses off as normal files. Some hacker/pedophile sent all his kiddie porn to another guy's computer and the guy got arrested. So I recommend checking your whole computer if you can. Seeing the computer problems, I suggest boot/nuke. Basically put a good anti-virus like Norton on a usb and restart your laptop on safe mode. Plugin the usb and launch the program.

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I was bored. It eventually did die from being an old laptop (yes, laptops do die over the years, contrary to popular belief, just takes a while), but before that, I'd use the PSX Emulator to deliberately cause my graphics card to crash.

 

The laptop would continue running properly, but the screen would be broken so badly.

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Not all virus programs pick viruses up. Some hackers can pass viruses off as normal files. Some hacker/pedophile sent all his kiddie porn to another guy's computer and the guy got arrested. So I recommend checking your whole computer if you can. Seeing the computer problems' date=' I suggest boot/nuke. Basically put a good anti-virus like Norton on a usb and restart your laptop on safe mode. Plugin the usb and launch the program.

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I'm not that retarded. >.> I run scans twice a day with Norton 360.

 

@Mia - funking lol.

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