Compal FL90 and NVIDIA 8600M GT

Hello

I decided to open a new thread for this question because my 8600M card hasn't broken yet
I have this laptop for 5 years and I haven't used it that much, didn't play many games on it, however when I did, the computer used to get warm fast and the graphics card would get to 83ºC I think. I usually use my desktop computer, but use the laptop when I am away. I have also used it to produce music, music mixing, etc
There doesn't seem to be any symptoms of failure yet, no black screen flashes, no bars, nothing, everything works perfectly and I have recently replaced it's old hard drive for a new Momentus XT 750. Works good and fast

However, it seems all 8600M GT cards are affected, and sooner or later this problem will affect me. I've been reading about the ATI cards that can be used, but it seems that the best one of them will cause PCI-E link issues lowering it's speed from 16x to 1x from time to time. Why does this happen, can it be avoided?

About the other cards that can work with this computer, is there any other you reccomend?
Of course I will just get to replace it when this one dies, but I don't know if it will die tomorrow or after 2 years

 

Hi,

refer to this post http://forum.notebookreview.com/com...600m-gt-graphics-card-i-fl90.html#post6645224

Especially "2. Which card to get"

You can use:
3400/3450/370
3650/4570
4650

Performance and prize increase from top to bottom. 4650 might have PCI-E throttling issues, unrelated with the card, but related to the mainboard - reason unknown.

Read the main thread, it's really all there - and more.

Good luck

 

Hi Guys,
I have an issue here related to the 8600M GT on my Compal. I had the card installed with windows XP 32bit and works fine. I decided to upgrade to Vista, I could download and install drivers, but not the Graphic card. I downloaded the 8600M GT driver for vista 32bit from Nvidia official web but no go. When I install the driver and restart, the computer recognize the card but doesn’t works as it should and have a yellow cross on the hardware devices and Graphics appear as 8bit. I also have that yellow cross on the PCI 4 slot. I also downloaded and installed the chipset driver from Intel but don’t help either. To be sure that the graphic card ok and not broken, I returned the hard disk with Windows XP to the PC and then the Graphic card back again. But still have a yellow cross on the PCI4 slot such like a problem with the driver.
Please advice.

 

I'd try a Linux Live CD and see how it works with that. Apart of that, I am not really sure what the PCI problem could be.

Good luck