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Is My GPU dead? Everything tells so, want a confirmation.
Hi Geeks!
Long story: I need to do some magics and find out cash out of thin air. In order to do so I decided to sell my spare HP laptop to an Irish neighbor of mine. The laptop was last used about a year ago, it has been in its original box in warehouse since that.
Laptop is an HP Envy 17 1150eg, about two and a half years old. As I already mentioned it has not been used in over a year, had Windows 8 Pro installed when I picked it up from warehouse day before yesterday.
As soon as I booted the laptop first time after this long break I noticed there were issues. Laptop display didn't turn on, connecting a display with HDMI gave no signal. First after connecting it to external display with VGA I got the usual Windows 8 Welcome /login screens.
Rebooting a few times, disconnecting external displays, battery, external mouse and everything else I finally got laptop display on. As my neighbor has an unused Windows 7 Ultimate license wanting me to pre-install it I inserted a flash drive containing 7 Ultimate installation files, booted from flash drive and started to install Windows 7.
When 7 was installed I downloaded and installed the latest chipset and Radeon GPU drivers. Reboot, Windows working and everything OK, then only after a minute or two the screen starts flickering and goes grayish blue, not BSOD but vertical stripes about 3 millimeters or 1/8 of an inch wide alternately gray and light blue as if the GPU was going crazy, screen flickering all the time.
I have now repeated (reinstalled) this 4 times, everything is fine until I install chipset and GPU drivers, then it lasts after next reboot between a minute and ten minutes before the GPU loses it. A couple times Windows has first recovered, a balloon tip next to Start button telling "The display adapter had crashed and is now recovered", then a few seconds later it happens again and cannot be recovered anymore.
Notice that the laptop has no issues if I either do not install the GPU drivers and keep using the general Windows VGA display driver, or if after the GPU crash I reboot to Safe Mode and disable the Radeon GPU. Of course Windows is then not very nice to use with very sluggish display.
Attached DM Collector file is from this morning. I reinstalled once again late last night, turned the laptop off, booted it up this morning and it gave a BSOD after 10 minutes. Notice that laptop has currently Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, Windows Update is offering over 150 important updates but I have decided not to install those until I know if this laptop should only be used as shotgun shooting target. At the moment no additional software is installed, nor any malware and / or AV apps.
Thanks in advance,
Kari