Well i was playing World of Warcraft and suddenly the screen just kind of froze, i tried all differant things like alt F4, CTRL Alt Del but nothing happend at all. I then held the power button untill it turned off. i started it back up thinking it was a random glitch or something and then the startup repair came on i followed the instructions and then restarted. it all came on perfectly but the second i loaded world of warcraft it froze once again. the 2nd time it took me around an hour of messing with the startup repair untill it finally came back on. i figured it had something to do with world of warcraft so i checked the furoms on that. after trying some of their solutions i opened world of warcraft again and it crashed.
then i kept trying the startup repair but it wouldnt load windows, startup repair would just come up everytime i switched it on. Also sometimes when i restart it it splits into 6 little screens or the page were it says ADVENT is really fuzzy.

When i click start windows normally the screen just stays black for around 20 mins then turns off. 1 time i heard the windows 7 noice wen the screen was black so i tried just typing in my password and i heard it log in but the screen was just black so i don't know what that was about.


After a few days i turned it on and it came on first time and then i ran a AVG virus scan to see if anything came up. about an hour into the scan a pop up came at the bottom of the screen, all i managed to read was nvidia then the screen went black.

When i start the laptop the following message comes up "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.

If windows files have been damaged or configured incorrectly, startup repair can help diagnose and fix the problem. If power was inturrupted during startup, choose start windows normally."

Now i can't get on at all it just keeps running the startup repair i tryed all of the options in their including system restore and windows memory diagnostic.

I think the problem might be that when my friend put windows 7 on there he had to download something, he said the drivers arn't right and went of nvidia and downloaded something i have no idea what it was. but maybe what he downloaded became corrupted so when i try and load something that requires it it fails and crashes the laptop, im not really a technician though:O

Also earlier in the day the charger wire broke but i cut it and reconnected the copper wires perfectly and taped it up but i dont think that can be the problem.


The laptop is an Advent 5401
250GB Harddrive
3G RAM
i think its 1.8 dup processer
nvidia GeForce 8400m GS
When i brought it, it had windows Vista, i recently got windows 7 put on there.

I'm hoping one of the internal drivers arn't broken somehow, i don't mind wiping the laptop its just i dont know if i would have to get windows 7 put back on the or if it would still be there.

It sounds like a hardware graphics problem. If the advent welcome screen is affected, which is before windows loads it rules out a driver problem.

If it is the graphics, thats not good news regarding laptops, as the graphics are normally built into the motherboard.

If its still under warranty I would advise taking it back to where you bought it from (PC World, Currys).

Now whether installing Windows 7 over vista would affect the warranty

If its still under warranty I would advise taking it back to where you bought it from (PC World, Currys).

Now whether installing Windows 7 over vista would affect the warranty
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i was thinking that but i thought maybe if i said i had a huge virus and wiped the whole thing but this problem still accured if the would replace it anyway. I got it last year in august so its just over waranty but i'm still going to try lol.

That is definitely video chip. It is about to give up, probably overheating and games does not help with this..
Lucky if still on the warranty - get it back. Otherwise, there is no easy way to fix this, as it is inbuilt into motherboard.