Hello
Am not sure if i am in the right section. Basicaly i am trying to repair a Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P PC for a friend. When i enter the F set up utilities everything looks scrambled as in exclamation marks with the odd few legible letters thrown in





I managed to re install the windows xp op system using screenshots from ANOTHER PC but after a week or so it went back to the same thing.
However I am able to log on in SAFE mode

I tried installing ubuntu- The splash screen menu from the disc displayed perfectly from the disc but when i tried to install the screen scrambled again and hung there indefinitely




Could it be the graphics card or bad sector on the hard drive?
Would appreciate any helpto find out if u have a bad sector, try this:
boot from a WinXP SELECT R
once u select R Console and get to the cmd select the Win u want to fix. usually 1.
type chkdsk /r

This is a simple DOS command to see if any sectors r bad. Sometimes it will fix a corrupt sector.
The graphic card will there r some programs that will run graphic test. U can always go to the Fujitsu Siemens site and see if they have any u can download.
u didn't state if the video was a on board MB or a video card (PX, PXe?). A LITTLE more infor would go a long way go help.It's the graphics adapter. No question about it.

if it's integrated- you'll need to buy a card and hope that it will opt to use it over the integrated graphics.

if it's a card- try re-seating it first; then if that doesn't work replace it.

It's not a bad sector. Disk errors would not CAUSE this. Not even close.Quote from: BC_Programmer on March 03, 2010, 06:38:24 AM

It's the graphics adapter. No question about it.