Is my video card or anotehr part of my laptop fried?

I was able to resurrect it several times. Don't know how but it would work for a while then crash again. The card was a 9600M GS DDR2 and the laptop model was an Acer Aspire 6930G. Judging by the picture below of my start up screen. Would you say it's directly related to the video card? The windows noise would play with that screen but recently, it doesn't even play the noise anymore.

 

In order to make sure is not the LCD screen, can you connect the laptop to a TV or a monitor? I think the card might be dying or there is something wrong with the connections there. When it's crashing, do you hear the fun going high speed beforehand? Do you hear any noise, like an electrical spark noise?

 

That could be your videocard, or the LCD screen, or maybe just the LCD flex cable. I agree with nklive; hook it to an external monitor or TV screen and see what you get.

 

I had some strange stuff happen with my laptop's LCD once, but it turns out it was just my accidentally tugging the LCD cable loose when I was cleaning out my fan exhaust.

 

Well, the monitor gave me a perfectly white screen when i ran the laptop without the card and I don't have a monitor to hook it up to. Not to mention I disabled TTM to save on startup time. Since there were no distortions when I ran it without the card. I don't think it's the LCD. I used a coollaboratory metalpad after my T9900 upgrade and after I completely cleaned it today when it quit responding. I found out it kind of spot welded all my resistors together on one side next to the core. It's supposed to be electrically non-conductive but I heavily question that now.

 

Oh, THAT'S not good.
Time to ring up Acer and get a warranty replacement (just remember to put the original parts back in, and pray they don't notice anything).

 

Well I would say after that event, NEVER get Coollaboratory MetalPads. After I got that solder gunk off, the card started working again.

 

WOW. I will never by that stuff. Look what I found on their website (poorly translated) :

Quote:

"Possibly it can be after longer use, that the liquid metal alloys in a minor degree with the contact areas."

Sound like what happened to you...lol...

 

Well, I've known that their liquid metal pro will chemically bond the heatsink and core after a long use but I've heard that the metal pads were removable. .... Yeah about that. I suppose anything is removable with enough force. Weird thing is that I only used it for like two days.

 

WOW, Now you know why I don't recommend those pads You should count yourself happy, because your core is still where it's supposed to be Glad to hear that everything works fine now.

 

I am very sorry for happened EchoShade, they recommend using metal grinding pad!!! Sounds a bit dangerous though. I don't know what effect will have on the core. That's why I didn't recommend using thermal pads on the processors, they are quite expensive. Thermal grease is a very well established material. Hope you sort it out quick. It might good to give it to an IT technician or something (someone you can trust though).