Acer aspire 5920G nvidia graphics card problem

hello there

i have Acer laptop with following configuration

Intel core 2 duo
nvidia geforce 8600M gs 256
windows vista


i was having overheating problems and fan was running with huge load like making sound (ghuuuuu...)

i bought a cooling pad it was still having overheating but little controlled

last night i kept it on and in the morning when i turn it on there is big icons and scattered graphics on the screen


how can i check graphic card

how can i overcome that heating issue is that from fan or heatsink problem or bad graphic card

any help is greatly appreciated

 

Hello, bedihardeep and welcome to NBR, please take a moment to review the forum rules.

These are also known as artifacts and can be a sign of a dying graphics card, unfortunately.
Your 8600M is probably part of a known batch of cards with a bad solder job.
Some folks were able to revive them, myself included, doing something similar to this when it reached the final stage of not being able to post:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...r-your-dead-graphics-card-your-alienware.html

Yours hasn't reached that stage and hopefully won't but i thought it's best for you to know.

High temperatures can be tamed by a good thermal compound (thermal paste, TIM) application along with cleaning the heatsinks and assuring yourself that the vents are not blocked.
A cooling pad won't help much if the stock cooling system isn't able to keep components at a decent temperature with a moderate use. So it's always a good idea to replace the thermal paste on your GPU die and CPU, clean your fans and heatsinks regularly.

 

I would start by getting a canned of compressed air and cleaning out the vents. Im sure it being so old, it has sucked in lots of dust over the years

 

ya i cleaned the dust and lint inside it works now

but the thermal compound for video card i guess is not good now where i can get that

graphics is working now but i guess still overheating problem there
guys how can i track temperature for card

thanks

it worked for 10 min after cleaning lint and dust
it may not be the problem
may be it cool down and when i tried after cleaning that i worked for 15 min or so but now it boot up and then blue screen keep coming saying dumping crash memory .................something like that ?


what should i do ...............?

is there any other cheap graphic card i can put in as replacement
any help is greatly appreciated