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    Is the 8800M/9800M G92M GPU defective?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by yknyong1, May 26, 2009.

  1. yknyong1

    yknyong1 Radiance with Radeon

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    As above, anyone has any idea?
     
    yknyong1, May 26, 2009
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    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You're going to have to take the laptop apart, de-solder the chip from the motherboard, saw it in half, take out a sample of the solder, and run it through a mass spectrometer to tell.

    I'm dead serious.

    nVidia has not been very honest, nor open, about the defective GPU situation. So we're all kind of in the dark about this, even months after it became a well known problem.

    Some rumors state only the 8400/8600 cards are affected, other rumors say that 8x00/9x00 cards are affected, yet more rumors still state that about three to five years worth of cards (all the way back to the 6000/7000 series) are affected.

    So there really is no way to know, until the card is dead.
     
    Greg, May 26, 2009
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    yknyong1 Radiance with Radeon

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    Some reviewers have done that to the MBP's 9600M, but the articles don't mention anything about the G92Ms.
     
    yknyong1, May 26, 2009
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    Starcub Notebook Consultant

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    There's an article here on this forum that talked about it which said that the 8800 and 9800 were both affected; however, the problem was (quietly) addressed by Nvidia in later design revisions. So wether or not your GPU is defective depends on when your GPU was made. I'm not sure what rev's are fixed but there are articles on it across the net.
     
    Starcub, May 27, 2009
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    yknyong1 Radiance with Radeon

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    Provide some links as evidence?
     
    yknyong1, May 28, 2009
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    Starcub, May 30, 2009
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    nacr05 Extreme Overclocker

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    I bought 2 7805u's from tiger a few monthes ago when they first became available and they both had GPU problems artifacts and heat issues. A few friends of mine bought a few aswell and some had GPU issues so I due believe the 9800m GTS is one of the defective cards from nvidia. I used to like nvidia but since I owned an ATi I will never go back to nvidia. ATi is so much ahead of nvidia. I hope this helps.
     
    nacr05, May 30, 2009
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    The 7800GTX on my XPS Gen 2 started getting progressively hotter (like 100C on not even full-load hot) and eventually just fried. The notebook was out of warranty so I had no recourse but to put the original 6800 Ultra back in.
     
    DestruyaX, Jun 1, 2009
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