p-7811fx is it worth it to repair?

I have an out of warranty p-7811fx that recently crapped out on me. When I attempt to boot it up, the screen turns gray with white lines going up and down. Every once and a while I can actually get into bios, but as soon as it attempts to boot windows up, the screen goes funky. I'm assuming it's the graphics card. Would it be worth it to repair it? Or should I sell it for parts?

 

its the GPU and on those laptops its built into the motherboard which means parts is the only way to go

not 100% but pretty sure

 

Sorry to hear about that man, if you are looking for a replacement mine is for sale right now... http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=467856

pm me if you are interested

 

Thanks, but no thanks. The overall support I've received, and quality of Gateway products has soured me from any future purchases of their products.

 

Have you opened up the area under the media player buttons to see if your LCD connector came loose? I had that happen to me on a Dell machine once. However, I could hear that the system was going through a normal booting procedure despite having nothing to display to. You can try hooking up your laptop to an external display, pressing the FN combo to switch displays (FN F8 on the Dell sitting next to me, probably different on a Gateway), and then seeing if your system boots just fine. You should try to rule out there just being a connection problem.

 

Hmmm...I tried using a different monitor, but nothing would come up. I thought it would automatically try to switch displays. I wonder if I have to hit a button somewhere. I really think it's a hardware problem. I tried moving the laptop's monitor in different directions to see if it was a loose ribbon, and nothing. Sometimes I can get it to actually show me the bios and whatnot, even managed to reinstall windows. It still wont go past the windows loading screen. That's if it even manages to show me anything! Nine times out of ten it's just pink and gray lines.

 

Edit: Nevermind, that was a stupid idea. lol

 

To be honest with you, ever since I spent $160 cdn fixed geforce8600m gt video card on sager np2090, then motherboard died within a few days. I will not give too much thought about trying to fix parts unless it's easy replacement (hard drive, cpu etc).
That said, you could try baking motherboard, just something for heck of it if works. If not, no loss than losing already dead mobo anyway.

 

Baking should be the last resort. Its high time every laptop with discrete GPU had this kind of feature. Atleast to replace dead GPU

 

most do. It is the budget gaming laptops

Baking is actually a great idea

 

I've had this problem with several laptops in the past. Just recently I got 2 compaq presarios wit GPU problems repaired with an IRDA welder. it takes about 30 mins. on both sides of the board where the GPU is located. It worked like a charm. If you could find somebody with an IRDA welder in your area I suggest giving it a try. It would be such a waste not giving that machine another lease on life.