Recently I began getting a series of repeating yellow bars in approximately 25mm squares across my screen. If I srcoll in a window the bars smear the display. I reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled all drivers with no change.
The system is a 17" notebook purchased from www.pro-star.com
P4 3.6 GHz
2G RAM
nVidia Geforce Go 6800
This looks like my graphics card http://www.extremetech.com/image_popup/0,1694,iid=98927,00.asp
I would like to order a replacement graphics card but after searching all morning I am not sure what to get or from where to get it. I cannot seem to find a source for the exact replacement. (I would rather not deal with Pro -Star as my experience with them has not been good. The computer is out of warranty.) I pulled the card and put it back so I am not concerned that I can do the replacement if I can just find out where to buy one. (Would the local Circuit City or Best Buy sell these cards? Seems like everyone I talk to just wants to sell me a new computer.)
Actually I do a lot of CAD (Inventor, SolidWorks, Pro-e) would like to replace with a card certified for these applications if I can find one for a notebook.
I am not sure how to get something that will work with my machine and where to get it from.
JD
The system is a 17" notebook purchased from www.pro-star.com
P4 3.6 GHz
2G RAM
nVidia Geforce Go 6800
This looks like my graphics card http://www.extremetech.com/image_popup/0,1694,iid=98927,00.asp
I would like to order a replacement graphics card but after searching all morning I am not sure what to get or from where to get it. I cannot seem to find a source for the exact replacement. (I would rather not deal with Pro -Star as my experience with them has not been good. The computer is out of warranty.) I pulled the card and put it back so I am not concerned that I can do the replacement if I can just find out where to buy one. (Would the local Circuit City or Best Buy sell these cards? Seems like everyone I talk to just wants to sell me a new computer.)
Actually I do a lot of CAD (Inventor, SolidWorks, Pro-e) would like to replace with a card certified for these applications if I can find one for a notebook.
I am not sure how to get something that will work with my machine and where to get it from.
JD