Graphics card fail?

[dumpedvs]

Hey guys, I turned on my laptop this morning, and the start up was screwed up. Like there were lines all through the screen and everything seems zoomed in.

All the pictures I look at at blue lines through them etc.. It's weird to just happen out of the blue, I was only using it two days ago and everything was fine. I ran windows repair and that did nothing, then i tried to rollback the driver in the device manager but that failed aswell.

I haven't updated the drivers or done any windows updates or anything like that. So like I said its weird to just happen out of the blue. I can still use the laptop as I am on it now but its really annoying.

Anyway thanks for reading, any suggestions?

[50LTRv8]

Try plugging it in to an external screen and see if you get the same issue.

[edals]

Does the same result show up if you take a photo with the computer ? like a screen shot
If so its the Graphics Chip failing.

[dumpedvs]

I just did a screen shot, and yeah its the same result. Its weird though, last night after resetting it a few times (hoping to achieve something) it started to work properly again. But a few hours later it stuffed up again, as it is now.

I did a restore point while it wasn't working and that I thought had seemed to fix it. But like a said it stuffed up again.

I tried to go back to the same restore point today but that made no difference. So I am pretty confused.

Thanks for the suggestions btw

[HarmlessMuffinMan]

Try an external screen, that pretty much will tell you if its the graphics card. But I doubt it is. More chance of it being the cable from the card to the screen, or the screen itself. No use speculating about it. Chuck in an external monitor.

Speculation: But I'm going with, not the graphics card.