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    Aspire 5920G and ATI 3650 1Gb DDR2

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Raider01, Apr 27, 2011.

  1. Raider01

    Raider01 Newbie

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    Hi all! This is my first message on the board, sorry in advice for my bad english...

    Well... my 5920G burns the original video card (8600 GT) so I decided to buy on eBay an ATI 3650 with 1Gb DDR2 on board. Unfortunately I've experienced some troubles... sometimes infact:

    1 - the screen remains totally black but W7 still continue working: this may happen after a couple of mins or after 1-2 hours;
    2 - the lappy may freeze itself on post screen: the Acer logo still remains on but meanwhile Windows was fully loaded (I can ear the logon sound);
    3 - sometimes after a full memory test done by W7 the screen still remains freezed (last time on 99%) but again Windows was full loaded;
    4 - last but not least, some blue screens... :rolleyes:

    The video card mounts the Acer bios (010.088.000.033.030448) and of course the 5920G bios was upgraded to the last version available on the Acer site (v3813). I tested the ram also with memtest and it's ok.
    GPU-Z says that core temp (in idle) is around 48-52 degrees... playing with CoD:MW temp goes around 80-82 degrees, I think these values are still normal... sometimes, after freezing, when rebooting W7 does not load the video card driver, but rebooting again drivers comes out again: actually I've installed the Catalyst 10.8 but this night I'll install the latest 11.3 downloaded yesterday but cannot installed due to the final crash and the late hour. :mad: But I think that drivers are not the problem... and I don't know what else I can try. :(

    Please help me.

    Thanks.
     
    Raider01, Apr 27, 2011
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  2. duffman452001

    duffman452001 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sounds like the card could be bad. This is what the nvidia 7400 on my dell m1210 did when it died, freezing at bios, blank screen but windows started fine, failed to load driver and just loaded basic vga. I dont know too much about swapping in and out video cards and the compatibility, but thats my 2 cents
     
    duffman452001, Apr 27, 2011
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  3. Raider01

    Raider01 Newbie

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    well, yesterday I worked for about a couple of hours without crashes... I suppose that a new vBios may fix the problem but I cannon find any for the 3650 1024 Mb version. :(
     
    Raider01, Apr 28, 2011
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  4. triturbo

    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    It's pretty rare GPU. I can't think of anything that would utilise the full amount of vRAM without choking to death the GPU itself. Better take a HD3650 512MB DDR2, it's been proven to work on virtually any machine (with proper MXM slot of course).
     
    triturbo, Apr 28, 2011
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