Aspire1710 (Nvidia Go5600) Bios tweak went wrong...

Hi All, this is my first post on your site so I hope you can help me.

I recently bought an Aspire 1700 laptop, which had a faulty hard drive. It turned out to be a replacement motherboard, which I got from the USA (recommended by some of the threads on this site actually).

I installed the parts and everything worked fine, expect, the graphics card driver would continually blue screen the laptop with all NVIDIA drivers (it did work in VGA mode). I tried what feels like any and every NVIDIA driver, but to no avail. I repeated the tests on Windows Vista and on Suse10.1 but both caused the machine to lock up when the direct3d drivers were loaded.

I decided to "under clock" the graphics card using NVIDIA NiBiTor BIOS program, and proceeded to flash the firmware on the VGA card. I powered off the laptop but no it will not power back up again.

If I remove the VGA card, and plug in an external monitor the whole machine is working.

Does any one have any suggestions... I do have the original VGA BIOS and I have made a bootable floppy disk, which works… but the laptop will not post, so I cannot flash the original BIOS back.

Does anyone have any ideas?

PS - if anyone has a working graphics card suitable for a Aspire 1710 for same please contact me (Paul dot jex at gmail dot com)

 

I have the same problem.
I think that there is some compatibility problem. Geforce 5600
from 1700 don´t work with motherboard from 1710 ...