my screen turns into stripes help!

I have an Acer Aspire1500 running vista, it is a few years old and recently it started acting up: First it would just turn into a blue screen or a lit screen. Then it started getting vertical stripes, they vary in color black and white, green and light green or red and pink black and grey, it seems to pick up the color of the page i’m on before it turns striped. I reformatted using the alt+F10 function, it did this more often before i reformatted, now it will run for a while then stripes! I have been searching online but found nothing. I restored it with sys restore in DOS with F8 rstrui.exe command as well, and i cleaned it all out. Has anyone ever had this issue and how do i fix it.

 

Hi,
This sounds very much like your onboard video card is capput(dead or dieing), does your laptop run hot ?? it may be that the solder around the onboard card has failed and needs to be re-soldered, not an easy job , if you know the location of the chip boot up and press hard on the casing in that area see if it resolves the stripes, if you are comfortable in taking your machine apart to access the the board you may be able to try and secure it with a piece of copper plate, to have it sorted by a repair man may well cost more than what the machine is worth.
Here is a link to the service manual for your machine.....

http://tim.id.au/laptops/acer/aspire 1500.pdf

sorry I could not be of more assistance to you.

iain.t :major