Burnt out video card? Inspiron 8200

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Scheibye

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Hi..

I have a Dell Inspiron 8200, 1.6Ghz P4, 640Mb Ram, XP SP2 and usual specs with the 64Mb nVidia GeForce4 440 GO running on the UXGA laptop screen.

I was using the computer for several hours last night, and had to pack it down quickly to catch a train. When I reached home I started it up, and something was absolutely wrong... The display was normal during the BIOS startup, but as soon as XP started loading the screen was flickering with blue colors and upon the login-screen there where 2" or so white-edges on my monitor and black in the middle.
I am able to start and run XP normally in safe mode and VGA mode.

I can make a "prt scr" and copy the picture onto another computer and display it normally (which tells me that the rest of the PC must be working...)

Is this my video card failing?

Thx.!
 
Thx for your advice.
However no driver versions that I can find seem to be working. As soon as XP tries to load a screen driver it crashes or turns really blurry/colorful (and nothing but colors appear)...

The screen colors/icons/everything seems fine in safe mode. However the picture is split and the top part of it is doubled in the bottom of the screen.

Do you have any other suggestions?
 
Any Ideas anyone?

This is getting really weird!

If I reset my video card by removing it from the motherboard and reattaching it, the computer (and XP) will start normally...
However after half an hour or maybe less - or at least at the next startup, the graphics driver won't load or the nv4_disp driver crashes during the use of XP.
I am doing fine in safe mode but as people know - it gets really annoying after a while.

I have tried installing all kinds of driver versions, but nothing works...

Do you know any solutions to this problem?

Pls help if you can!?!?!

Thx.
 
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