Does this sound like a Graphics card hardware error?

A pwr surge could have damaged all most any of your hardware eg motherboard

"chand" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just want to know if a graphics card is not working, would it prevent
> me logging into vista? like there isn't enough graphics to boot vista?
> is this possible?
> Also would a malfunctioning graphics card cause weird symbols in the
> BIOS, like weird vertical lines, dollar signs replacing spaces, E's
> replacing F's, A's replacing N's etc.?
> Also could a power surge possibly damage the graphics card? in terms of
> hardware?
> I am not asking for a fix here; i just want to know if this can
> happen
>
> Thank you for your time
>
>
> --
> chand

Thank you for all your replies. I will be sending my computer fo
warranty in a few days

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chand

On Jan 18, 8:21*am, chand <gu...@unknown-email.com> wrote:

> Thank you for all your replies. I will be sending mycomputerfor
> warranty in a few days.

Power surges are blamed when nobody has a clue. Your symptoms are
classic of a bad memory chip on the video controller. If true, then
heating that controller with a hair dryer on high will make the
problem even more obvious.

Of cause, if a computer manufacturer is responsible, then
comprehensive hardware diagnostics could be executed to make this
failure obvious. No doubt what needs repair. A perfect example of why
responsible computer manufacturers routinely provide these
diagnostics.