Does i9300 have on-board gpu?

So a couple of months ago my roomate decided that it was a good idea to play hellgate: london for 9 hours straight. The problem was that he put my i9300 onto a cushion, successfully blocking off the very much needed ventilation to the trusty old workhorse gf 6800go. Lo and behold the next morning I wake up to constant graphical glitches and blue screens of demise. After some research and head bashing I realized that my good ol' 6800go was fried. So here's my question:

I can run windows perfectly fine by not installing any of the nvidia drivers, the only problem is that the maximum resolution I can hit is 1024x768.

Does anyone know if the i9300 motherboard has an on-board gpu chip?

If so, I could install the drivers for it and hopefully get back to the much better 1440x900 resolution. If not, I will sell this clunker for dirt cheap because I'm far too lazy to install a new gpu, which alone costs $200+ for the card.

Thanks,

-The guy who's switching back to desktops

 

You only have one or the other, integrated or dedicated. So no, there is no on-board chip.

 

Umm, so what exactly happens when you actually install the drivers? It doesn't make sense that w.o drivers installed the card works but with drivers installed it's defective. If it was defective in anyway, you would not be able to use it regardless of drivers. So the fact that it physically works means you can go ahead and use it normally with its drivers.

 

The nvidia drivers use much more of the card than the built-in windows drivers. You could maybe turn off hardware acceleration when you install the drivers, so that the card won't try to do as much, and won't get a chance to mess anything up. The graphics performance will be terrible, but you'd be able to get a higher screen resolution.

 

The moment I install the nvidia drivers the computer asks me to reboot before I can play with any settings. Once it reboots it immediately hits the blue screen and the only way for me to boot is in safe mode. I guess I could try to turn hardware acceleration off in safe mode. I'll give it a shot later on tonight.

Anyone else think that this will work?

 

This sounds like you are having driver issues. I suggest fooling around with different drivers, but doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. You would see a screwed up screen if your card was busted, but simply gettin BSODs points to software problems.

 

there's a screwed up screen too.. I didn't want to go into detail because I already know it's dead, i just wanted to know about the onboard gpu.

My 6800 is 100% dead.. i've asked a lot of other people and have done a lot of research and it's not drivers, a lot of i9300 owners have had their cards melt down on them... it's not really a rare thing.. the funny part is that all of these owners had their cards break 2-3 years after purchase, which also happened to me... makes me wonder if Dell has planned the technical obsolescence for these things... tum dum dummmmmm.. never going with dell ever again..

 

What does your research tell you about your card working without drivers? that doesn't make any sense. If the card is dead, is dead wth or without drivers. There's some other issue here

 

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Video-Card-Problems-2109/video-card-fried.htm

 

Sounds like dead GPU.