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On Saturday 16 August 2008 03:57:42 b.n. wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: |
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> > In short: all 8XXX chips are bad. Because of the |
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thermal environment |
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> > laptops are on a different place of the bell curve |
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than desktops. Laptops |
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> > with nvidia graphic are failing left and right. Whole |
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series of HP, Dell, |
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> > Asus, laptops are walking ghosts. Desktops might be in |
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the mess soon too. |
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> Just to know: what to do when your laptop graphic card |
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fries? I don't |
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> think I can just take it out of a socket and change it. |
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Correct. You have a few options, none good: |
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1. Replace the motherboard |
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2. Lean on the dealer to replace the laptop with a |
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different model using a non-nvidia card |
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3. Take it in the shorts |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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