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Wicked Artifacts

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Jakalwarrior

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*edit, this is a laptop*
On my girlfriends inspiron 8200 the graphics are seriously freaking out. She bought an ati 9000 to upgrade her geforce 2 about a year ago. Today it started spazzing. We pulled it apart, put it back together, and it works sometimes. It will work for a while and then you move the laptop and it spazzs, or you play a game a bit and it does it on its own. I know nothing is loose as weve had it apart a million times. It dosent have a real heatsink it had a metal pad over the core that stretched over the rest of the card. It looks like this. http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Inspiron-8...ryZ74957QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem The pad on the heatsink that connected it to the metal stuff though felt more like an insulator than a conductor. We removed that, squirted on some AS5, put the metal pad back on, no luck. I have to get this fixed or my girlfriend will be miserable and I wont have anyone to play WoW with me.

Note, its not really a 9000. After we scraped off the TIM we read the core and it said 7500. She got ripped off. Was no real way to tell though since the card is otherwise unmarked and she figured the driver support was weird since she was using non standard drivers and it seemed fairly fast.
 
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It sounds like this one might be dying a slow death...

I hope playing WoW isn't the only thing you do together... ;)
 
CodeX said:
WOW! That one might make it into my sig
:rolleyes:
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Eh, the GF can field strip her laptop in like 5 minutes. She knows it inside and out. Thats actually what made me fall for her. I watched her strip it and show me what core she had in the hall outside CSC class :D
Trust me, its all put together right and well. I double checked it all and even ran it with everything mostly apart to see if I could tell if wiggling a certain area mattered.
 
well everything is slots that slide together, I should say pressing extra hard on the slots and plugs to see if anything in the picture changes. Flex cable plugs, agp, etc...
 
Found the problem. Power supply was dying. It crapped out once while we were testing stuff with it all torn down. Then it wouldnt turn on anymore. OH NO WE KILLED IT!!!! then we noticed when we plugged the power supply into the comp the PSUs lights would dim then go off. Tried battery alone and voula, works great. No more graphical anomolies. I guess in 3d more the card pulled more power and the thing couldnt keep up so everything was being undervolted. The chip and ram etc... had a little headroom but the vid card just wasnt getting enough juice to be stable.
 
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