Acer MXM Models and Cards

Also, does anyone know if this would work?

NVidia 9600M GS DDR3 512MB MXM II VGA Card 5189-3743 Graphics Card UK Based | eBay

 

Aspire 5920G successfully downgraded to ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT.

 

In the process of buying an Nvidia Quadro FX770 512MB DDR3 which has an identical chipset to the 9600M GT.

Well looking forward to putting that into my Acer 7720G.

I hope that I made the right choice, initially I was gonna go for the 9600M GT 1GB DDR2 but thought I go for the fastest possible DDR3.

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nVidia Quadro FX 770m 512 MB DDR3 MXM II Graphics card

I think I hit a jackpot here, at £52!!!!

 

HI everybody!
I have 1 problem. I just bought asus 240m mxm 2 and have problem putting it into acer 5920g. I have installed modded bios , but notebook doesn't seem nor to see video card nor to boot. Whenever i put my old card or boot without any , notebook seem to boot up easly. If i put 240m one i receive no power : with battery , battery + ac , just ac nohow. Any ideas?
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Its stated that this is rev 2.0 card. Maybe its because of this? I've seen some rev 1.0 card, maybe them should work properly?Or i should done some modding to it?
Thanks

 

Hi, dont try to test this card. If you are not receiving power , there is some shortage caused of card . You are lucky - not harm your motherboard. If you can test it on another laptop- Asus is perfetct for test. Or just return the card, if you really but it from that place, be aware - a lot of items are faulty , selling as "new". I purchased one 260 GTX from there- was faulty, and I have luck cuz my cousin living in China and they send me another one- working card.

 

Successfully upgraded 5920G from 8600m gs to 1gb 9600m gt. Required modded bios. See X920g vs 9600m thread for more info + gpuz screenshot

 

Hello all. Brand new member. Sorry for not going thru this entire thread, but it is just to long.

I have an Aspire 7720. The 8400M GS was killed by some guys at a laptop shop repairing the power button. I need a new graphics card. I found a great video on how to swap it out and feel confident I could do it. But I can't find a compatible GPU anywhere on the web. Can a usable GPU still be found for this old laptop? Or am I just out of luck?

 

Hello All, I posted earlier about upgrading my 8920g from 9500m GS 512MB DDR2 to a 9600m GS 512MB from and Acer6930. I had a lot of problem getting it to work, but it was probably operator error. Finally it worked and I thought I would let people know how I got it to work. When I swapped the card and rebooted I only had a black screen. I tried updating bios with I think every bios out there. I eventually had the Modded 1.16 version, but still black screen. I installed the old 9500m card and set to vga. I then shut down and replaced with new card, then connected with HDMI which was the turning point as I had tried other external monitor connections. Then windows started onto the external screen via HDMI and the drivers for 9600m GS were installed automatically.

 

@mlkiser

Hi there, I'd suggest FX770, 9600m GT 512MB GDDR3 or if you can't find the others... 9600m GT 1GB GDDR2

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Hi,

I'm new here and this is my first post.

I have an Acer Extensa 5630G laptop in pristine condition.
But I wonder if I could change Mobility Radeon HD 3650 512MB GDDR3 MXM II graphic card on it with a more powerful GeForce 9600M GT 512MB GDDR3/1GB GDDR2 MXM II or even with Mobility Radeon HD 4650 1GB GDDR3 MXM II, without ruin it my laptop.

Thank you.

 

The Extensa 5630G has poor cooling. Are you happy with your temps? Because either one would run hotter than HD3650. Also HD4650 requires some modification in order to work.

 

Hi,

I'm new here and this is my first post.

I have Acer aspire 5739g, yesterday i modify gt 240m to radeon hd 5730m and it work perfect !!!

p.s. sorry for my english i am from Russia )

 

That's nice, congrats! I hope that you got it dirty cheap, since there are HD6770m and HD7770m for around and a bit more than $100.

 

Just curious,is anyone know if the display card in the v3 772g is replaceable or not?thx~~

 

Will one from a different model notebook still work? I have found several on ebay, such as this:

HP EliteBook 8530W 8530P nVidia QUADRO FX 770M 512MB Video Card Board 502338-001

I'd rather spend less if possible. These things run like $150 new.

 

Err, why don't you download GPU-Z and tell us what it says. Or post a screenshot?

Uhm should do, I bought mine off eBay for £50 and GPU-Z says the vendor is HP.

I would make sure though just in case.



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Yea, that's actually what I am trying to do, make sure. That's why I am asking here.

 

No modern Acer system has an MXM slot.

 

Hi. I successfully installed a Nvidia 9650m gt on my Acer Aspire 7520g and used it without any problem for about 2 years. Now i have 2 problems. First is that it works only with external monitor. Second is that the video card works only with windows drivers. If i install nvidia drivers it has red, green and blue dots all over the screen. I tried many drivers, from 17x.xx to 19x.xx but i have always the same problem. I installed windows xp, 7 (32 and 64 bit) and 8 (64bit) but i had no luck. I don't know why my card worked good till now. Can you help me? :cry:

 

You must have done something to make it stop working, or perhaps its kaput?

 

Hello, I'm new to the site, I have an Aspire 5920G, for about a week has burned a HD3470 that I had replaced the 8600M, now I want to buy a 9600M GT 1024MB, so the PC will have problems reading it or I just install the mod of the bios?

Sorry for my English Translated
Greetings.

 

According to this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/575866-acer-mxm-bios-mods-discussion-x920g-vs-9600m-gt.html

So it appears if you flash your bios, you are set to go.

 

I was informed that the GT 240M (the MXM-II type) for Acer 5920G is a plug-and play card which should work in an Acer 5930G as well by plugging it in without bios flashing or mods of any kind.
Can anyone confirm this?

 

Bought and installed this card, but I get nothing but a black screen. No video indication whatsoever. Does that mean the card is bad, incompatible, or is there something I can do to get this thing running?

 

The card needs to be an ASUS 240M GT, as the Toshiba 240M Gt has no VBIOS chip onboard (One can integrate the VBIOS in the SBIOS, see here.

it's been done in these threads to various Acer laptops

http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/706850-acer-6930g-gpu-upgrade-mixed-success.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/659923-acer-aspire-8920g-upgrade-9.html
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ace...cussion-x920g-vs-9600m-gt-94.html#post8889420
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ace...t-post9361970.html?highlight=240m#post9361970

But in this thread, discussion points out it would not work
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...240m-gddr3-asus-m60j-acer-aspire-6930g-4.html

It seems like the guy with the 6930G had his LCD crap out when he replaced his GPU,
The problem appears to be driver related (maybe?) requiring perhaps the Laptop2go custom modded INF's
Maybe try this method
Have-Disk method for Windows 7 / Vista - Frequently Asked Questions - LaptopVideo2Go Forums

The problem with MXM upgrades is there is still alot we don't know than what we know on what cards successfully work, through my searches in this forum sometimes I find conflicting results. Ultimately the best way to know what works is to experiment.

 

I would like to add, that in this thread the 240M GT has been done in a 6930G successfully: http://forum.notebookreview.com/acer/402416-cpu-gpu-upgrade-acer-aspire-6930g-17.html#post8661882

 

Hi, i haven't touched the card, it stopped working without any notice and now it works only with windows drivers, but i can't play and it is a problem for me. I don't know if flashing the vbios will help. What do you think?

 

Pretty sure the GT240M from Acer 7538G would go into 7720G as well, there is one listed on Amazon.co.uk.

Might give it a go.

Hmm... sounds like it might need reflowing.

Have you tried baking it?

 

I tought about baking it, but it could die so it is a big risk for me

 

It's MXM-A, you need MXM-II.

 

Today i baked it for 5 minutes at 200°C. Now i have a different kind of artifacts, but they remain. I don't know what to do

 

Is there someone that have try to put a gt240 m on a acer 6930g ???

 

It should work.

 

I have upgraded my 6930g to a 9600M GT GDDR3 from a 9300M GS and cpu from a T6400 to a E8435 E0, quite a difference in performance, I undervolted the the cpu to 1.08v on idle the laptop isn't hotter than before, got the parts for a very good price.

 

Hi everyone. I have Acer Aspire 5920G with dead 8600m GT video card. Want to buy an inexpensive and relatively powerful card. It seems nVidia Quadro FX 770m is suitable for me, but I don't know which purt number is better 580214-001 or 502338-001. Guys, please help make a choice.

 

It is suitable if you have modded BIOS, otherwise IT IS NOT!

 

I flashed modded bios in advance.

 

people, does anyone has the bios of the ati 4650ddr2 that comes with the acer 6930g?

because i have this issue and i thing that can be one of 3 reasons:

bad card
bad driver bad bios

ati mobile 4650 crash with weird strips. - YouTube

i have this problem when i play a game, or when i wacthing 3 clips at the same time.
Any ideas what can be?

 

I think this is bad card.

 

As I can see on the video you`ve linked, your video card "produces artifacts". Artifacts - strips, that you can see. Sometimes this problem can be solved be heating your card processor with industrial heat gun, or heated in usual oven (of course you have to know, what and how you are doing). After these methods card`s life will be prolonged to 1 month - 1 year. But, it will die completely anyway, as the structure of processors pins and processor itself is already damaged.

This issue can be provoked by card`s processor overheating (overheating caused with bad thermal-paste, unclean cooling system, heavy load on video processor). Better for will be to change this card, because it can die at any time.

Heating Gun Method

Heating in Oven

Be careful: both of these methods can as help to restore you card, as can kill it. So, as I said before, you`d better change it with new one.

 

Hello,

I installed the modified version of the BIOS on my acer 5920g, I wonder if the graphic card G96-630-A1 works with my laptop.

thanks

 

The sreipes that are appering they come during games or videos. so you think i should put my card in the oven, ok i see and i will do it.

and tell me something, can someone tell me a model on ebay or other place for a gt240m or a 4650 ddr3 because i saw somecards that the connceters are not the ones that i have on my card

Thanks

 

Hello

I just want to add to the forum the extra info that on an Acer 8930G the gpu can be switched with a quadro FX 2700m with modified drivers. Check my posts on 8930g owners lounge

 

hello
I have a 9600GT vga to install on 5720.
What is the procedure for it to be recognized by my notes?

 

Hi,
Recently I replaced my Acer Aspire 5920G graphic card because of a failure. The old card was showing artifacts, I tried to repair it with a heatgun, It succeeded but later I failed a VBIOS flashing. I have another HD3470 from a chinese eBay user. I installed the card putting a lot of thermal paste on GPU. I noticed that sometimes the laptop fan is doing a lot of noise, but, according to AIDA64, the CPU and GPU temperatures aren't too high: 40-45ºC on CPU, max 55ºc. and GPU diode 60ºC (idling). I tried to stress the GPU using Furmark and it increased around 80ºC BUT the latop fan didn't increased noise :S Where can be the noise problem?

 

Try and just plug it in first, then see if you get a black screen or not.

Putting a "lot" of thermal paste on the GPU isnt going improve anything. It will likely make things worse as heat wont be able to transfer properly. You need a fairly small amount, basically so it just covers the GPU die.

Also, why are you worried about the fan noise not being there? Surely thats a good thing. 80C seems fairly normal anyways.

 

Getting 60-65ºC on GPU at Windows, that is normal? I tried putting less thermal paste, the result was the same or even worst.

 

If the result with less paste is worse it's possible that the paste is what's making contact between the radiator and the card.
Since it heats up to 80*C it's not bad but keep an eye on it for a few weeks.

If it is the paste that's making contact between the GPU and the radiator the contact may and will get worse when the paste gets dry- which may produce higher temps.

Also please keep to one thread. I just answered your question in the other thread just to find slightly more info in this one. It's confusing.

 

Not working with me
When I try to install drivers he tell me: I do not have compatible hardware
Any idea?
(the bios of my laptop is modded (5920G_MXM_V3) and the cart is from ebay).

 

Hey there,
I just tested a 8600m GS on Aspire 6930g. Working flawlessly without bios mods.
Also I tested a 9300m GS on Aspire 5920g. No image.