Laptop video card problems NVIDIA 7600GTS

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Boxerz

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(I mean Geforce Go 7600)I bought an EVEREX 5000XT Laptop about 16 months ago and the laptop has been pretty reliable for a good time and now I'm outside the 1 year warranty, the laptop starts having issues. Basically, I would turn on the laptop and 1/20 tries, the laptop would boot up. The other 19/20, the LED lights for fan and WiFi would come on and I can hear the fan spin and possibly the hard drive spin/think. I had replaced the default 1gig ram with 4gigs which the computer worked fine for a couple of months. Besides that, no changes to the computer. I am running Windows Vista that came with the system..

When I got the computer to boot up once, it said, Windows has recovered from an error and I clicked the OK to find out what the problem was and it said, most likely that a conflict with the Video Card. I updated the drivers to the newest yet that did not fix the problem. I figure, the video card is faulty/burning out since this laptop is a gaming laptop and runs hotter than the sun. It had high ratings on newegg but everyone said the laptop ran too hot.

When my desktop had Video card issues, it would boot up once outta twenty times or so and I replaced the video card easily but as for a laptop, I don't know how to replace one, if that is possible. I see there are a few USB video cards but I don't know if that would fix it.

I tested switching out the RAMs just incase. I reformatted the OS couple of times figuring it was a bootsector error which is doesn't seem to be.
 
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I had a laptop that I sold a while back that did this same thing. It would boot up 2/5 normally, but the other 3/5 times it would just give me a black screen. It ended up being the video card itself was just wearing out.

Replaced the processor, memory, etc. only to find that in the end the graphics card started to show it's age.

Make sure to blow it out if you can and clean any connectors internally, and make sure they are all secure. A loose connection could also cause this. Good luck.


EDIT: Oh, as for replacing it, the only thing you can do is go through the manufacturer and see if they have one you can order since it is outside of the warranty range.

The USB video cards might work, but they are strictly for 2D only, no 3D and will only work with an external monitor, so your LCD is screwed. You could get one though to test the internal card and see if it is still active or not. Not sure if it is worth the price to you.
 
im having a bit of difficulty finding the GPU in the laptop. i can find the RAM, HDD, CPU etc but I can't find the Vid card. i'm new to laptops and hating it
 
It is most likely hidden under the fan or heatpipe structure, try and find a diagram of your laptop internals
 
Nvidia's laptop stuff always runs painfully hot, thus baking themselves.

I would suggest trying to get every iota of dust out that you can. Taking the thing at least partially apart to get in there and clean all the parts might be what you're going to have to do :(.
 
I got this from the OP from another thread on here dedicated to this laptop
"The recovery DVD is a full recovery DVD. Not a 'recover from hard disk' pile of crap. So go ahead and install XP. Normal ForceWare works for the chipset, but you'll need something like MobileForceXP for the GeForce Go 7600 as it's PCIe and the nVidia official drivers appear to only have the AGP PCIIDs."

so it is a PCIe.. so i assume it is possibly upgradeable/replaceable? I'll ask in that thread about this issue as well and grab a can of compressed air to blow out any dust. Just a concern, why would dust be an issue in general? I assume it causes overheating because of unncessary space taken up..?

thanks for the replies so far, has been helpful.
 
If the graphics chip is a part of the motherboard, then it isn't upgradeable. You should see three chips attached to the motherboard if this is the case. The CPU, GPU, and Northbridge chips should be under the heatsink. IF the GPU is seperate it will attach to a slot on the motherboard, much like RAM does.

If you need to buy a new laptop, I have one FS in the FS/FT forum..
 
Boxerz said:
I got this from the OP from another thread on here dedicated to this laptop
"The recovery DVD is a full recovery DVD. Not a 'recover from hard disk' pile of crap. So go ahead and install XP. Normal ForceWare works for the chipset, but you'll need something like MobileForceXP for the GeForce Go 7600 as it's PCIe and the nVidia official drivers appear to only have the AGP PCIIDs."

so it is a PCIe.. so i assume it is possibly upgradeable/replaceable? I'll ask in that thread about this issue as well and grab a can of compressed air to blow out any dust. Just a concern, why would dust be an issue in general? I assume it causes overheating because of unncessary space taken up..?

thanks for the replies so far, has been helpful.
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Just b/c it is PCI-E doesn't mean you can replace it. That's just the bus interface. If it's soldered on to the mobo, no much you can do besides replace the mobo entirely. Check for loose connections between the mobo and the LCD too.
 
Boxerz said:
so it is a PCIe.. so i assume it is possibly upgradeable/replaceable?
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Nope, it's part of the motherboard. It uses a PCIe link, but it's not a card connected through a PCIe connector.

I know...I used to own an XT5000T.
 
since it is connected to the motherboard, i assume theres very little i can do besides replacing the mobo and hoping that is the problem?

i took a picture of my laptop
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the thing left of the 2 RAM sticks is what? sound card? ethernet? i see the CPU is in the middle, the top left fan i would assume the GPU is under there or its just not in the picture. if this won't be an easy fix, should i just scrap the laptop for parts? i got this off newegg about 14-16 months ago for around $850 so i'm kinda a bit mad that it didn't last too long as money is an issue for me.
 
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