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    m9700 video cards = fail

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by MrSneis, Aug 22, 2008.

  1. MrSneis

    MrSneis Notebook Consultant

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    Alright. So good friend of mine left his m9700 in the car in the hot AZ summer yesterday for over 5 hours. Upon inspection of this laptop it seems his video card/s are fried as it's artifacting on startup but boots into windows fine. This laptop is about 3 years old and is running 7900gs go's in SLI; I've tried switching the cards around and running with only one card but it seems it needs both cards to even give picture.

    Besides buying 2 new video cards direct from dell/aw is there any chance at redemption for him? Has anyone confirmed if an upgrade path in terms of video cards is even possible?

    I poked around on ebay and i didn't really see any prime examples of video cards he could buy :( Or even answers to my above questions.
     
    MrSneis, Aug 22, 2008
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    since you are not under warranty anymore i dont think AW would give you any new cards. they probably dont even have anymore in stock. i doubt you can upgrade too.
     
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    That is a cute zanghief. Really sucks for him, I think he spent close to 3k on it years ago :(
     
    MrSneis, Aug 22, 2008
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    Stone825 Notebook Virtuoso

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    You're going to have to check if you can use the E1705's 7900GS in the M9700. If nothing else, he will at least be able to run 1 card but not SLi until he can find a slave card. Check about the 7900gs in the M9700 though.

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Inspiron-E1705-9400-256MB-Video-card-7900GS-DG008_W0QQitemZ350091393033QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item350091393033&_trkparms=72%3A1071|39%3A1|66%3A1|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
     
    Stone825, Aug 23, 2008
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