I turned on my laptop the other day and had strange coloured lines throughout the screen which changed if I tapped the laptop! Thinking it was a virus I decided to reinstall windows XP. When I did this the ATI radeon X700 driver wouldn't install so in device manager all it showed was a VGA display adaptor. I did try downloading and installing new device drivers for the ATI card but these didn't remedy the problem. The problems still existed but were much less obviuos in safe mode. I uninstalled the VGA display driver in normal mode and then rebooted in the hopes that the system would find the ATI card and install it - but the net effect was that the screen in blank after windows installation. I hear the chimes on start up and when shutting doen by pressing the off button I here the closing tune but nothing on the screen.
In safe mode I can view the screen and the VGA display driver is installed .
The laptop has been getting very hot. It is only 1 year old and has a 3 year hardware warranty. Does this sound like it is a hardware problem with the ATI radeon X700 card? If so I need to send it back to Fujitsu. Help would be very appreciated.