I try to describe my problem as good as possible
i have a hp g62 with ati radeon hd 5400 series
a week ago or so when i was surfing in the net i got a bluescreen error and my laptop restarted
the start up screen normal and the weindows logo but then insted the homescreen i just get a black screen with nothing
i hear sounds from random button pressing so i know the laptop did start up but its all black
so i started it in safe mode and it worked then restarted to get a black screen again, then i restarted in safemode again and disabled the ati graphic card so it was forced to start with the intel card and it worked that way, even without being a really good coputer knower i think its safe to say that the problem has something to do with my graphic card, i deinstalled it and installed the newest version but still black screen, then i completly dismanteled my laptop cleaned everything put it together but still nothing has changed, so actually i acnt play any games or use it to watch movies with the hdmi cable,
btw the fan is working and i actually never had any overheating problems so i dont think my graphic card burnd it self or something, what can i do now?
and soemthing else but weird, 3 days before it all went black my brother called me, he told me his laptop screen went black and that it isnt working basicly the same thing as me. We bought our laptops the same day from the same place and its the same model, i always keep it clean and play the latest games so i use my laptop pretty much but my brother plays only league of legends so his graphic card isnt used maybe as much as mine but i live in a different country then my brother since a year, what im trying to say is we bought the same thing the same day together but after that both laptops were used under very different circumstances still we got the same error what i belive is the graphic card nearly the same day, i mean this is a bit too much to be a covincidens, is there something like an expire date for the graphic cards to them selfdestroy so we have to buy new ones ?