Vista Pretty colours at boot up

birdie · 11-21-2009, 08:55 AM

Here's the story...
Yesterday, when playing PR the game just froze for about 5 seconds, then unfroze for about 3 then froze again. Then, then mylaptop just turned itself off. Fearing that when I booted it up I would get the blue screen of death, I got somthing much, much worse...

...pretty colours dancing across my screen! Usually blacks, whites, pinks and greens. Then after about a minuite of these colours the screen would fade out to black and I would hear the vista jingle in the background, yet still no image.

This happenens every time I boot it up.

So I check if it was my screen: I plugged an external monitor into my laptop and switched to it using the 'function' keys. No picture appeared on the monitor.

Heres what Im using:
Acer aspire 5920G laptop
Vista home edition
8600 GS
2.0 duo
2GB RAM

Hopfully somone can help me

Thanks all.

GoreZiad · 11-22-2009, 08:55 AM

Overheating of the graphics card would be my guess. I've seen that on a few laptops.

birdie · 11-23-2009, 04:50 AM

Thanks, I'm sending it into acer to get repaired.

You can delete this thread.

11-21-2009, 08:55 AM	#1
birdie Join Date: May 2009 United Kingdom Posts: 15	Pretty colours at boot up Here's the story... Yesterday, when playing PR the game just froze for about 5 seconds, then unfroze for about 3 then froze again. Then, then mylaptop just turned itself off. Fearing that when I booted it up I would get the blue screen of death, I got somthing much, much worse... ...pretty colours dancing across my screen! Usually blacks, whites, pinks and greens. Then after about a minuite of these colours the screen would fade out to black and I would hear the vista jingle in the background, yet still no image. This happenens every time I boot it up. So I check if it was my screen: I plugged an external monitor into my laptop and switched to it using the 'function' keys. No picture appeared on the monitor. Heres what Im using: Acer aspire 5920G laptop Vista home edition 8600 GS 2.0 duo 2GB RAM Hopfully somone can help me Thanks all.
birdie Join Date: May 2009 United Kingdom Posts: 15

11-22-2009, 08:55 AM	#2
GoreZiad Join Date: Feb 2008 Denmark Posts: 2,239	Re: Pretty colours at boot up Overheating of the graphics card would be my guess. I've seen that on a few laptops.
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11-23-2009, 04:50 AM	#3
birdie Join Date: May 2009 United Kingdom Posts: 15	Re: Pretty colours at boot up Thanks, I'm sending it into acer to get repaired. You can delete this thread.
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