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    9600m GT gives black screen on Acer 7720g

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by polzdgl, Jan 21, 2012.

  1. polzdgl

    polzdgl Newbie

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    Hi all,
    I have acer aspire 7720g laptop. Originally came with nvidia 9300m g 256mb video card. This card is very weak. T

    Now I bought a card from ebay
    Nvidia 9600m GT 1GB DDR2. This card was taken out from a ASUS laptop. The card even has ASUS printed on it.

    After I put that on my laptop, for some reason, nothing comes on screen. I hear the windows 7 startup sound. I can tell the windows boot and everything, but no display on screen. Then I replaced it with my previous working card and everything back to normal.

    Any idea why is this happening? Do I need to flash the vbios from ASUS to Acer?
    If so how, i mean i dont get any display. Or is it that the card is bad.

    Any ideas would be great. Thank you.
     
    polzdgl, Jan 21, 2012
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  2. ajbutch123

    ajbutch123 Notebook Consultant

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    I could be wrong, but isn't ASUS the company who flipped their mxm cards? You might have to get another one that is not pulled from an ASUS.

    *Edit* I was not aware that they actually flipped the whole card around. But I guess your problem has to do with a bios or something else if the card is 'normal'.
     
    ajbutch123, Jan 22, 2012
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