I can hear the windows login sound pop up so this leads me to believe that the computer is still starting properly, just I can't see what is happening.Īfter a few more restarts I got it to start correctly. (colored lines moving rapidly down the screen and restarting at the top for constant stream) So I turned it off and gave it a good 5 minutes or so, turned it back on and during startup this time the screen went black and then into a rainbow of colors in line form that appeared to be moving down the screen. I restarted my computer again, this time while starting up the screen went black and filled with blue lines. This time however I was greeted with the screen just going out of focus (think of a very blurry picture) with lots of super blurry artifacts showing up everywhere like a checker board. The problem happened after about 4 minutes of watching a different replay. I decided to once again for better of for worse, try company of heroes to see if the problem had gone away on its on (wishful thinking). It just seemed to be isolated to company of heroes. I tried running Battlefield 2 as well, again no problems after almost 4 hours of running. I decided to boot up starcraft 2 and see if the problem was the same, no problem after about 2 hours so I gave up. (The first time was about 10 minutes in).

I repeated my company of heroes replay and received the same issue about 3~ minutes in. After trying a quick control-alt-dlt and getting no response I powered down my laptop manually and turned it back on without a problem. I could still make out the game behind the blue lines just barely, and it seemed to have stopped running. All of the sudden the screen got covered in blue lines going from right to left. Something that I do quite often with no problems. The problem started when I was watching a replay in Company of Heroes. I have not installed any new hardware or programs in quite some time.

Company of heroes black screen