Can this NOT be the GPU?

[White]

Yet another part in my mums Toshiba satellite P300 dies.

 

The screen often flickers with a glitchy screen and then goes back to normal with the message "AMD mobility driver has crashed and successfully been recovered.", somtimes once every hour or somtimes every second. I plan to get another one and salvage it for a GPU i just have to make sure that this is indeed a hardware problem and im not wasting £30 (fortune i know).

 

INB4 get a new laptop i told her many times but she is not ready to leave those speakers.

 

Intel celtron somthing something M

4GB ram

AMD HD 3470M

Windows 10 fresh install

[Mew]

Could possibly be drivers. I don't think AMD even supports the 3000 series with drivers in Windows 8, let alone Windows 10. 

[Hans Christian | Teri]

I agree, my course of action would be;

 

1: Install Windows 7

2: Buy a new laptop.

[DiamondGuy2357]

Ya I think its the gpu itself because I used to have a old graphics card that I dont remember the name of that did the same thing as your moms on games and sometimes on idle.

[Naeaes]

It could just as well be the VRAM or something in the cooling/voltage regulation. But on another note, how are you planning on removing and replacing the GPU? Isn't it a BGA socket?

[White]

I agree, my course of action would be;

 

1: Install Windows 7

2: Buy a new laptop.

I'll roll back to windows 7 and see if the issue is still there. Thanks guys

[White]

It could just as well be the VRAM or something in the cooling/voltage regulation. But on another note, how are you planning on removing and replacing the GPU? Isn't it a BGA socket?

proprietary connector, already been in there to replace thermal paste

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Yet another part in my mums Toshiba satellite P300 dies.

 

The screen often flickers with a glitchy screen and then goes back to normal with the message "AMD mobility driver has crashed and successfully been recovered.", somtimes once every hour or somtimes every second. I plan to get another one and salvage it for a GPU i just have to make sure that this is indeed a hardware problem and im not wasting £30 (fortune i know).

 

INB4 get a new laptop i told her many times but she is not ready to leave those speakers.

 

Intel celtron somthing something M

4GB ram

AMD HD 3470M

Windows 10 fresh install

 

According to AMD: "AMD Radeon™ HD 4000 Series or older products are not certified to support Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 1.2 or later.  Therefore, systems using AMD Radeon™ HD 4000 Series or older will default to running the Microsoft® Basic Display Driver.  As a result, display functionality may be limited."

 

Source: http://support.amd.com/en-us/search/faq/287

 

It's a wonder why Microsoft marketed Windows 8 to bring older PCs back to life when problems like this are guaranteed to happen. 

[White]

Reverted to 7 and can confirm its much better, Updating in case someone else has such issues.

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