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    Replace Graphics Card for 9700

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by skrewdreyever, Mar 1, 2011.

  1. skrewdreyever

    skrewdreyever Newbie

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    Hello, I suspect that my graphics card may be burnt out in my alienware m9700. I have taken the back cover off, but im sortof lost as to where or what to do then. I am attempting to replace the graphics card because i suspect my old one may be bad, or, i simply need to perform what i believe is referred to as a 'recooling' process. Can either be done? Either replacement or recooling? First, I need to know what type of graphics card i have, how can this be physically done as my computer will not boot up unfortuneately. Wehn i take the cover off i do not see anything that looks like what i would envision a graphics card looking like. Any help is very appreciated, thankyou for your time.
     
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    lol, thanks marvie, i suspected it might say nvidia on it somewhere, but i cannot find/see it. thankyou for the link, it pointed the way for me. And now, having taken off the heatsink, it looks to be like the brandname is under quite a bit of stickysomethingorotherness, so i cannot quite read it, as of now. I was expecting it to have a fan attatched to it, just not so on the laptop i suppose.
     
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    That is the thermal paste. You will need to clean it all off the heatsink and graphics card and reapply a new dab of it before reinstalling the heat sink or you will have overheating issues.
     
    Marvie100, Mar 2, 2011
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    reflex99 Notebook Guru

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    just to elaborate on what marv said

    Rubbing alchohol works really well for removing thermal paste.

    Just splash some on a tissue, and rub the TIM (thermal paste) off the GPU die
     
    reflex99, Mar 5, 2011
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