Hi,
I'm running an old Inspiron 6400 with Windows 8.1. It was running fine. A few weeks ago it came up with a BSOD error "NMI_HARDWARE_FAILURE".
Since then the screen has been partly repeating at the bottom (photo attached, a screen grab would not show the problem) - the full screen is shown on the top approx 5/6th of the screen, then on the bottom 1/6th it repeats a slither of the top of the screen. It does this right from the BIOS boot screen and in the BIOS setup.
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Starting normally, I get the same BSOD each time as Windows is booting. In safe mode windows will boot fine, but still with the screen repeating at the bottom.
I've tried a system restore, but that didn't change anything.
I'm guessing its a graphics hardware failure and not a driver problem, as it does it right from the BIOS screen.
Any advice?
Thanks.
I'm running an old Inspiron 6400 with Windows 8.1. It was running fine. A few weeks ago it came up with a BSOD error "NMI_HARDWARE_FAILURE".
Since then the screen has been partly repeating at the bottom (photo attached, a screen grab would not show the problem) - the full screen is shown on the top approx 5/6th of the screen, then on the bottom 1/6th it repeats a slither of the top of the screen. It does this right from the BIOS boot screen and in the BIOS setup.
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Starting normally, I get the same BSOD each time as Windows is booting. In safe mode windows will boot fine, but still with the screen repeating at the bottom.
I've tried a system restore, but that didn't change anything.
I'm guessing its a graphics hardware failure and not a driver problem, as it does it right from the BIOS screen.
Any advice?
Thanks.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1