Sudden blank screen, now not working

My early 2011 MacBook Pro was working normally, I was reading an Ebook and getting ready to play an online poker game, when suddenly a blank screen (initially white, the whole screen). I restarted, and the first time it seemed like it would be OK, then I got an error message saying there was a graphics problem, and it would be reported. I tried to restart VMware Fusion (for the poker game), and it began to open, then the whole screen turned dark grey. Subsequent attempts to restart-- I get the Apple logo and the indicator line beneath, but the pixels look funny, like there is horizontal but not vertical response, and it reloads about a third of the way and shuts down-- repeatedly. I am using my older IMac right now, but there is a lot of data in the MacBook that I use daily-- need to fix it as soon as possible-- and this is happening at a moment when I don't have any money, and I need the computer to find or make some…….
Any useful feedback would be much appreciated.

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 10:57:16 GMT, Steven Foong wrote:
> Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this problem ?
yes... not at all.. blank screen doesn't work with certain video cards... a
lot of them are mentioned in the readme
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