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Our venerable Sony Vaio, which was working fine last night, is now showing screen corruption as soon as it’s switched on and then failing to boot into Windows. I’m guessing this is a hardware failure, most likely something on the logic board, and that it’s probably not worth repairing given the age of the laptop?
The issue may be caused eg by a corrupted graphics driver. In this case, appropriate troubleshooting steps include: Reinstall the graphics driver. Reinstalling a separate driver can be done through the VAIO Recovery Center options.Check for driver updates. Especially graphics driver and BIOS updates are related to this.If the problem started recently, restore the system to a date before the problem started.Check Device Manager forRun a complete system recovery. Instructions for this can be found in the Troubleshooting and Recovery Guide that came with your VAIO. It can also be located in the Documentation section.
gdubai this most certainly looks like an issue with the GPU. Connect an external monitor and see what that displays. Ultimately you will have to take a closer look at the motherboard. Let us know exactly what motherboard this is so that we can try and help you further with this.
