mod_desolator

Sup ppl?
I got a serious problem with my Toshiba Qosmio G35 AV650.
After playing Crysis and CoD4 demos, I wanted to play Gears of War. I installed it successfully, and launched the game.
After about a few seconds, ma laptop seized up, with some bright red colour boxes on the screen. I plugged it out and removed the battery, then turned it on again.

Immediately as I booted, I saw some green vertical lines on the screen, but in the section where I can select Safe Mode and so on, didn't have the vertical lines, but some of the letters had a flashing white box around them. I tried to load windows normally, the boot screen with the scrolling thing had the vertical lines again, then after the boot screen, the BSOD flashed, then the laptop restarted.

I tried to start in Safe Mode and it worked, but the vertical lines were still there. The Display Setting didn't have any information about my video card, but in the properties I saw VGASave. I went to I checked device manager and saw Standard VGA, I went to the properties and roll back drivers, then restart.

The laptop started normally, with the lines. But strangely, I could still go up to 1900 x 1200 resolution at 32 bit, and I even played videos okay (I didn't try any games though), but in the Display Setting, it still showed VGASave enabled. I disabled it (my God) and restarted, Safe Mode or Normally wouldn't start, the BSOD just flashed. I connected it to an old monitor and boot up the laptop and it re-enabled VGASave.

I tried booting without the two hard drives and the vertical lines were still there. I installed some newer nVidia drivers and the PC would boot normally, but after the boot screen, the entire screen is black with no lines, and it seems the PC isn't seized up. I still cleaned the drive and reinstalled XP, no help.

I looked in the resources tab for VGASave and it showed some conflicts with what appears to be an Intel onboard video card, at Root Poor 27A. Maybe this is the problem, but I was thinking that maybe the video drivers in the CMOS got currupted somehow. Can you people help me out please? (assuming you've read this far)

I assume Gears of War will have some probs, since it's a console port. If you need anything else just ask.
Specs:
Processor: Intel Core Duo T2500 / 2 GHz
RAM: 1 GB DDR2
Graphics: nVidia GeForce Go 7600 256 MB GDDR3, PCI Express x16
Motherboard: Mobile Intel 945PM Express

Thanks in advance guys. I hope I can get my awesome laptop working again

-Des

cybereclipse

did u uninstall vgaSave??

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mod_desolator

Can I uninstall VGASave? And am I suppose to???
I couldn't stop the process the first time, so I set the startup to 'disable' and restart the laptop, then it failed to start up normally or with Safe Mode (as I already stated)
It's either the GPU is damaged (which i seriously doubt, cause launching Gears of War can't do that, right?) or I strongly think the video card drivers built in the motherboard, or the motherboard drivers are corrupted somehow.
-Des

SirMille

try using a restore point that was created before you installed the latest game

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mod_desolator

No other suggestions?

-Des