I would appreciate your help!

[askaterina]

Hello everyone!
I am new in here,so just a few information about be. I am from Greece and I study Elecronic engineering ang computer engineering but I think I chose the wrong field as I tend to want to smash my pc into pieces just like now.
My problem started when during the windows boot my screen went black and everything stopped. I tried to repair windows but installation stopped when about 34 minutes were remaining and while devices where installed. My only choice was the format. After format, windows started normally but the screen had some weird colors as well as weird was the screen acceleration. I tried to do install my graphic cards drivers when everything gone black again. If through the safe mode I uninstall these drivers, windows work again. I need a new graphic card? Can I do anything else or as I told you just throw the laptop off my balcony?

[askaterina]

Oops..I forgot the information about my pc!It s a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pi 1556 laptop with Nvidia geforce go 7600. I use windows xp home edition +service pack2.

[patio]

2  things i know of that cause this symptom..
1) Dirt/scratches or smudges on the CD...clean it with a soft lint-free cloth.
2 ) RAM issues. How much RAM is in this laptop ? ?

[Broni]

clean it with a soft lint-free cloth

Make sure clean it in radius direction, not in circles.

[street1 (RIP)]

There is a possibility you could make an exact copy of
your install disk on another computer and where the
original gave you problems the duplicate will work fine.

Try BlindWrite it gives you a 20 day free trial. See below.

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[askaterina]

Thank you for your answers.
I'm going to try everything you suggest me. I just hope I won't need to change my graphic card as I heard that this costs as if I buy a new one laptop, and I bought this one just a year ago. Also excuse me if my English are bad 
Patio Ram is 2G.

[Broni]

as I heard that this costs as if I buy a new one laptop

Don't listen to others, listen to us
You can get really nice video card for about $100, and an average one for much less.

[Broni]

Oooops, I forgot, you have a laptop...Sorry..

[patio]

That's plenty of RAM...

[askaterina]

ok...I tried everything you told me.. At first I tried to install windows and I got an error "can't find a hard disk". Then I did a memory test using Ubuntu installation cd. Everything seemed to be ok as far as ram is concerned. I installed ubuntu, everything was working properly till I decided to make an upgrade. Pc then turned off by its own, and everytime I try to get into Linux, again screen has some weird colors and pc does nothing after a while. Any more suggestions? Might it be a hard disk problem?

[Broni]

It may be. Go to your HD manufacturer site, and download their diagnostic program.