Dying gpu on laptop

[greener]

So I'm pretty sure the gpu on my laptop is dying. Basically every time I turn it on and it boots into Windows there are bright green pixels flickering everywhere and the display driver usually keeps crashing over and over again. I know it must be a hardware problem because I've already completely reformatted Windows a few times...Heck, I even installed dual booted with Ubuntu and it actually was working for a while but now its starting to show the green flickering pixels just like windows. So...the burning question I have now is: are there any external usb (2.0) display adapters out there that don't use the onboard gpu? Does anyone have any experience with them? I have an extra monitor, so if one of those adapters would allow me to use my laptop again that would be awesome. 

Thanks in advance guys for any thoughts or suggestions  :)

[Godlygamer23]

Here's one. http://www.amazon.com/electronics/dp/B000NJFJJK

4 stars out of 67 reviews.

[qwertywarrior]

are there any external usb (2.0) display adapters out there that don't use the onboard gpu?

 

i couldnt get concrete info that it didnt  use the GPU :(

 

i guess you could try it out

 

if you want to fix the GPU u could always use the reflow method

[greener]

i couldnt get concrete info that it didnt  use the GPU :(

 

i guess you could try it out

 

if you want to fix the GPU u could always use the reflow method

what is the reflow method?

[FireFox]

I'd plug the laptop into a TV via VGA or HDMI (whichever) and see if the TV shows the same green pixels, might be worth a shot and if the GPU or GPU related part is starting to fail it should show.

 

If not then maybe your screen or screen related component.

[qwertywarrior]

what is the reflow method?

opening the laptop completely

getting a heat gun

aiming it at the gpu for small periods

so it can get fixed

google it on youtube

something like

heatgun GPU

[FireFox]

opening the laptop completely

getting a heat gun

aiming it at the gpu for small periods

so it can get fixed

google it on youtube

something like

heatgun GPU

 

Has he tried the monitor/TV idea, I've come across things like this before, flickering crap around the screen but plugging into a monitor didn't show them, turned out to be the screen.