ATI graphics problem

[desvest]

Good afternoon everyone, how are you? I'll tell you, I like to tinker in my free time to keep learning and I've bought a Acer Aspire laptop with an ATI Radeon HD5650. It was advertised that it would freeze when installing the drivers, but I think the problem is more serious. The screen, as you can see in the photos, has distorted colors and a quality worthy of Windows XP. If I remember correctly, I think this is already a physical problem with the graphics (burned transistors or similar), right? Is there any way to test/fix this through software?

Thank you very much for your time, everyone!

[Sylver]

Hello @desvest

I couldn't tell you with precision, but it seems more like a color configuration problem than physical damage to the chip, because the icons and in general the Windows environment seem to be appreciated well.

Although it's not an exact pattern either, physical damage to chips or their solderings usually generate "artifacts" that appear on the entire screen, both icons and background colors:

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I would try with other versions of the driver, to see if at some point you get a different result. If it remains the same, it is possible that it is a physical damage to the GPU.

Regards

[desvest]

Thanks @sylver for the quick response. That's the problem, when I put the Windows from 0, which has a random driver, it looked bad, then a driver was installed by Windows that allowed it to go up to a resolution of 1920x1080 and then I installed the latest version of Catalyst. In all of them it looked terrible. Also, when booting with the Acer logo, instead of seeing the black screen, it's red. I think I'll have to open it up and if I'm lucky, the GPU isn't soldered