This laptop is like 10 years old and belonged to my dad before he gave it to me so I could use it for studies (I have a different gaming PC). I hope it just requires an OS reinstall…

  • Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Hardware gore

    That’s the telltale pattern of VRAM issues If this system has dedicated graphics, there’s a high tool and skill ceiling to executing repair.

    If this has integrated graphics, regular RAM gets used as VRAM and repair is easy as long as the memory is modular

    There’s always the possibility that this is a silicon level issue in the GPU/CPU but those cases are statistically less probable

      • Björn@swg-empire.de
        1·
        5 months ago

        I found it so strange that the last time I looked at laptop reviews all the reviewers would list a numpad as a negative and not just a simple preference thing.

        Guess people don’t use their computers to compute anymore…