nVidia 260m Crash

Hi All-

Long story short and after many hours of attempeted troubleshooting I think it is safe to say my GPU has crashed and burned while I was playing League of Legends. I turn here in hope of some advice for what I can do to fix my issue. I have a Sager NP8662 aka Clevo model M860TU. It was bought in 2009. Has run exceptional until recently. I want to upgrade but I'm not sure to what. I am not sure the max my motherboard/GPU can handle and was hoping for some feedback. I've heard of 9600's and 9800's going in but like I said I want to upgrade.

A link of my screen as it stands is attached.

Any feedback is greatly appriciated imgur: the simple image sharer

 

hi and welcome to nbr

the m860tu has been the best ever laptop ive owned and i just wish i could upgrade mine with upto date graphics cards but sadly theres no chance. the best driver i found for it was a very old 186.81

have you been upgrading your nvidia drivers for the last couple of years as ive found for these older cards the newer drivers are not very good at all.

ive seen pictures like that before on here but im not 100% sure they were dead cards. attached is what my 9800GT looked like when it died while i was playing crysis 2 on release day.
the screen froze but sound continued. as soon as i pressed a key the sound would continuously loop until i hard shut down. after booting this is what i was left with.

luckily i was covered by warranty and it was replaced by a 260gtx the same day.

i was told the 260 was the highest card that the m860tu would take but weve had a few on here managed to get a 280gtx running with various bios mods.
i have no idea what ati/amd cards would fit this model.

the hard part for you is finding a graphics card. you could try ebay or our own marketplace NBR Marketplace but you must make sure its defo not a dell card as no one was able to get one of them to work in a clevo.

if it is defo a dead card then you could try your last option of the baking method

The Oven Trick (repairing your broken video card with an oven) | Overclockers

http://forum.notebookreview.com/zep...znote-6224w-but-works-all-brands-modells.html

 

Can you get back into the game etc? Try running some temperature logs while playing if so.
Have you ever taken it apart to clean inside the fans, reapply quality thermal paste?

 

Hey Rune,

Thanks for the reply. I've taken it apart and did a full clean, but didn't try the thermal paste. Also, the issue started out slow, happening once a week or so. Now its been happening about every game I play. I will try to run temp logs. I haven't booted it up since I cleaned fans. I'll try tonight and report back. I have found a few used 260 chips for reasonable prices around the web if worst comes to worst.

 

just make sure they are not DELL cards as they will not work in a clevo.