Hope you can help me out, I've searched for this problem but haven't found a thread which has exactly the same problem as mine so here goes:
I recently set up an external monitor to hook up to a Win8 upgraded Toshiba Satellite A300, as an extended desktop. Everything was working fine, until as I was browsing using Google Chrome, both the screens froze. Therefore, I switched off the laptop and attempted to restart, but the boot process only displayed on the external monitor, with a blank screen on my laptop. Then, a BSoD with the error 'video_tdr_failure' appeared, and now the boot process stalls at that stage, and I have to manually switch off to restart. I can still access the BIOS, but cannot boot into Safe Mode so far. I have attempted to change the display options in the BIOS, but to no avail.
Is my GPU buggered? I understand that I cannot replace it without replacing the motherboard on the A300. I haven't booted using a Win8 disk yet as it's at home (I'm at University), so can I attempt to save it using that if it's a software issue?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
I recently set up an external monitor to hook up to a Win8 upgraded Toshiba Satellite A300, as an extended desktop. Everything was working fine, until as I was browsing using Google Chrome, both the screens froze. Therefore, I switched off the laptop and attempted to restart, but the boot process only displayed on the external monitor, with a blank screen on my laptop. Then, a BSoD with the error 'video_tdr_failure' appeared, and now the boot process stalls at that stage, and I have to manually switch off to restart. I can still access the BIOS, but cannot boot into Safe Mode so far. I have attempted to change the display options in the BIOS, but to no avail.
Is my GPU buggered? I understand that I cannot replace it without replacing the motherboard on the A300. I haven't booted using a Win8 disk yet as it's at home (I'm at University), so can I attempt to save it using that if it's a software issue?
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8