ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 200 series or 200M

My cards shot on my HP Pavilion zv6000 laptop, I can barely play anything without getting stuttering and severly low FPS, current RAMS max 2GB. I was wondering if there were any sites besides ebay that would still sell a replacement card/motherboard for something this old.

 

It won't be worth it. The Xpress 200M is an integrated chipset (incidentally, I had it on my old laptop), so that means you will need to completely replace your motherboard, which will run you several hundred dollars - with that money, you could get yourself a new laptop.

 

Well that sucks, I know it isnt worth it but I want to atleast be able to run low min req games still without the stuttering issue and I've already dropped 3k on a M17x but still want to keep my current laptop. Is it possible to replace parts from another motherboard without any issues from my current motherboard. I found a deal thats a old zv6000 thats missing its keyboard, hard drive, dvd rom, screen and wireless card.I might look into buying and itll cost me 1$ or more sadly heh.

 

Are you completely sure that the issue lies with the hardware and not software? Even so, I'm not sure I would advise spending not-a-small-amount of money and effort just to keep a laptop "alive".

 

Im pretty sure the issues with the hardware. I can't run any game at 1280x800 res without my laptop shutting down 10-20 seconds later randomly. I've tryed updating the drivers for it but it just says their up to date, I doubt uninstalling them and re'installing them would help.