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Postby jenksie » Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:31 am

Hi all,

Please please can i get some advice.

Whilst playing a game yesterday on my amilo m 3438g tthe laptop suddenly crashed, when i rebooted i got loads of weird lines on the screen (including the fujitsu siemens computers screen where you would go to the bios).

These lines don't exist all the time sometimes i get random lettering in random colours when booting.

Just before windows loads i get the blue error screen popping up briefly and the machine restarts. I can get into safe mode but system restores do nothing.

i tried flashing the bios, but when i try to type in dos some bizzare characters appear in place of the letters i type.

I contacted FSC and they say it sounds like the screen is broken (i dont think that is true). They have said if its a user caused problem i will have to pay £100 plus the repair cost.

Any suggestions on how i could fix this myslef, does anyon here have experience dealing with the warranty and know if i am likely to get charged for this?

please help me, i'm lost without my amilo
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Postby Borkar » Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:46 am

I'd say your graphics card is broken. It became too hot during usage...
This is usually (if you haven't overclocked!!) not your fault so the warranty should cover it!

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Postby jenksie » Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:49 am

Many thanks for the speedy reply. Thats cheered me up :) The card is not overclocked i run with the drivers that came with the system. Bit odd for it to overheat because i run it on a cooling base with fans, but fingers crossed its that. Many thanks again :)
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Postby Borkar » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:11 pm

jenksie wrote:Bit odd for it to overheat because i run it on a cooling base with fans, but fingers crossed its that. Many thanks again :)

If this was the case, it was maybe not overheating... Anyway, either graphics card or display, it should be covered by warranty. (To verify this, have a look at the warranty information that came with the notebook and check whether you have done forbidden things :wink: )

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Postby ed3203 » Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:03 pm

I'm having the same problem. I created a new thread to anyone interested.

topic,456,-Laptop-crashing-ATI-chip-problem-Amilo-M1450G.html

The laptop crashes and freezes continually, I tried updating the bios, reattached the hdd, memory and cpu cooler(not wanting to do too much to void the warranty). The problem seems either to be due to overheating or a bad connection(light flexing can cause a crash), something connected to the ati chipset.
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