I'm concerned about my laptop

[Flannel Boy]

My laptop, an XPS 1330, just froze and the screen turned into a shimmering pink and green pattern with some white font. I took the battery out and restated it; the laptop seems to be fine now. Would anyone know what the pattern on my screen would indicate? HDD problem? CPU problem? HIV?

Finals are a month away and I need my laptop.

[Madrun Badrun]

HDD wouldn't do that.  sounds like a GPU thing.  I'd start backing shit up though.

[Van Cruncheon]

if yer gpu is an 8400m, yer fucked. that whole 8X000M series of gpus had a recall last year.

[The Fake Shemp]

Probably all that awful music you're listening to did your laptop in.

[Madrun Badrun]

Probably all that awful music you're listening to did your laptop in.

Quite possible.  Just look at what it did to his life!  I've never heard a more corrosive thing than his music.

[Dickie Dee]

My laptop crapped out about a week ago and I'm waiting on a new one to get shipped to me. :'(

Meanwhile I'm posting this from my Wii Mamacint

[Flannel Boy]

The laptop just turned off by itself.

if yer gpu is an 8400m, yer fucked. that whole 8X000M series of gpus had a recall last year.

It's a 8400m

What should I do?

[Madrun Badrun]

don't turn it back on till it's cooled off. 

[Flannel Boy]

don't turn it back on till it's cooled off. 

and now?

can i switch to the onboard graphics?

[Flannel Boy]

 

[Brehvolution]

ON board graphics should already be your primary display.