My Sony Vaio laptop overheats and shuts off, help?

Hello Everyone This is my first post. I chose to post this in the NVIDIA forum as I think that the problem I am having lies with the NVIDIA graphics card/Video Card. I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FZ21Z which has been working without any faults for 16 months.

My warranty ran out four months ago. Last week, for no apparent reason the graphics began to get distorted. This happens as soon as I turn on my laptop.

Sometimes I see the Sony Vaio logo first then the graphics go awry. On other occasions it starts with the windows error recovery window asking if I want to proceed in safe mode or to start windows normally. I have tried both safe mode and the latter and the graphics are distorted in both modes.

I have tried updating the NVIDIA drivers, and it said that the software for my device is up to date. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers but no joy. Now there is a yellow exclamation mark showing up next to NVIDIA drivers in the Device Manager.

The device status reads: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) I try to update but it still says the software is up to date. I have no NVIDIA control panel showing up in the overall control panel.

That’s just disappeared… weird. Lately, the graphics fuzziness starts and then my computer just turns to black before switching itself off. It has a tendancy to overheat and I can hear the fan working really hard, I hope it hasn’t fried the graphics card.

I am not into gaming but I do use adobe premiere and dreamweaver programs which tend to work up the heat. So I would like to ask if anyone has experienced this. Or if anyone has any advice on what my problem could be.

I feel that my graphics card has burned out, it is built into the motherboard. I called the repair shop, they told me that it would cost £850 to get the motherboard replaced on this particular model and the best thing would be for them to repair it. Spec: Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2 GHz - 15.4" TFTType: Card reader Supported Flash Memory Cards: SD Memory Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo Video.

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