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    8600m GS Video Card Failure?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mD-, Feb 3, 2011.

  1. mD-

    mD- Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok so here's the deal. For well over a month, my laptop display has looked terrible because my video card failed. Basically there where a bunch of green lines and green blocks (usually replaced the blacks) and the colors were very distorted. For some random reason today, I decide to load of STEAM and run Torchlight just to see what would happen. So I did that, and what do you know! The display was switching back and forth from distorted and green to regular after the GPU fan started running and it stayed looking perfectly normal as long as the game was running. I tried the same thing with CS 1.6 only and got the same results!

    Before this point, I hadn't gamed on this laptop in many many months. I turned Torchlight off and then about 8 mins later, the display went back to be looking terrible. Therefore, w hen I run a game that requires graphics to be rendered, the GPU kicks on and my display is fixed...

    I'm not a laptop expert, so can anyone explain to me why this is happening because I thought that usually when laptop graphic cards fail, the artifacts appear IN GAME along with errors, etc. Keep in mind that my graphic card is one of the defective 8 series ones.

    Also, because of all of these display issues, I just ordered my new laptop a few days ago and it's suppose to be here by Thursday or Friday...
     
    mD-, Feb 3, 2011
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  2. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Well I think what's happening is that when you run a game the GPU heats up and expands slightly which is just enough for the cracked solder to reconnect.
    When you turn the game off the GPU cools down, contracts and the connection is ruined again.

    You could try baking the GPU (but it will break again soon after that).
     
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  3. mD-

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    Ok, I was thinking something similarly, but I just thought it would get A LOT hotter than that to be able to run and reconnect. The temps were only about 70 C...

    So I guess it's fine that I've ordered my new laptop then rather than for no reason
     
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