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    Aspire 1520 NVidia In 1360 Motherboard?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Rotting Heaps, Oct 19, 2009.

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    Rotting Heaps Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've got a 1360 with 5200FX graphics, and the graphics card is clearly faulty (appears to be failing memory).

    I also have a 5300 FX card out a 1520 (with assumed motherboard fault on the graphics card socket, one pin had broken off, displayed on a monitor but not to the laptop screen).

    I tried fitting the 1520 card in the 1360, but got nothing other than one long and two short beeps (video failure).

    I'm assuming this is because the 1360 doesn't recognise the 5300, but saurely as the 1520 was a 1360 with a full AMD 64 CPU instead of Sempron, and appears to share a motherboard, is there a workaround?
     
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    Scratch that - I updated to the latest BIOS I could find, and got a video failure error with the original 5200 card. Fitted the 5300 and it powered up. So a word of warning, if you have the 1360 with the 5200 graphics card, don't use the latest BIOS found through the Acer ftp site!

    Sadly, it turns out my spare card is faulty (identical fault to in the old 1520, no display on the laptop screen, perfect on the external), but that's how it goes I guess.
     
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