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    Dead Graphics Cards

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by MrDJ, Apr 25, 2011.

  1. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Nvidia and Ati
    with all the cards that have been dying over the last 6 months it would be an idea to see which has been the worst culprit so far (we know but its good to see it in black and white)

    so the question is:
    has your graphics card died and if so what was it.

    ill most probably miss some out and know nothing about ati cards so if its not in the list just post below.
     
    MrDJ, Apr 25, 2011
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  2. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    9800GT
    bought september 2008
    died march 2011
     
    MrDJ, Apr 25, 2011
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    niffcreature ex computer dyke

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    If you wanted to get serious about this you'd have to include a number of other cards...

    Look at some of the more common models people have had in notebooks; 8800m GTX for sure, but probably 9800m GS, where the 8800m GTS was only ever released in the HDX dragon and early gateway FX.

    Personally I have never seen any of the above cards fail. I have seen:
    1 fx 770m fail with artifacting in BIOS
    1 fx 770m fail (due to vbios flash) where the BIOS was visible and the screen was a lot of slowly changing color gradients
    1 QS fx 2700m fail (it worked 100% for a while)
    1 early revision ES fx 3700m fail, will still boot up completely and work 1 out of 10 times or so.
    1 QS 8800m GTX (just doesn't seem to be doing anything)
     
    niffcreature, Apr 25, 2011
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  4. Eivind

    Eivind Notebook Evangelist

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    9800M GT. Lasted about 15 months.
     
    Eivind, Apr 25, 2011
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  5. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    theres about 10 of us on here with failed 9800GT

    as i said id most prob miss some cards :)
     
    MrDJ, Apr 25, 2011
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  6. jaybee83

    jaybee83 Biotech-Doc

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    ha! nice thread :D

    bought my asus C90S in August/September of 2007 and the installed 8600M GT failed me ONE day before my freshly ordered 9600M GT arrived (February 2009) :D thus, it lasted a total of 17 months, but i must admit that i subjected it to some heavy-duty overclocking ;)

    cheers
     
    jaybee83, Apr 25, 2011
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  7. niffcreature

    niffcreature ex computer dyke

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    Well I guess I'm curious as to what kind of statistic your attempting to generate?


    If this thread is still alive in a few months, I will get an infrared BGA oven and try to make all your failed cards into gtx 280m (REAL g92b, 55nm 280m) :D

    They do have the same board so it should work.
     
    niffcreature, Apr 26, 2011
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  8. worseelite

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    8800 GTX failed with artifacts then totally dead after 2 years ish.
     
    worseelite, Apr 27, 2011
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  9. rdalev

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    Had a 7600go take a dump on me, in an HP DV9000, in the past. The 9800gts, originally installed, in my system in my sig below had to be replaced TWO weeks after I bought my 5793. Had them replace the original 512mb 9800GTS with a 1gb 9800GTS and no problems for the past 2 years. Although no issues with the 1gb 9800GTS, I recently replaced it with a 3700m FX !
     
    rdalev, Apr 27, 2011
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  10. DEagleson

    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    I had two GPU relater faults, one with a ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 that would overheat like crazy, but i guess i should blame it on the notebooks cooling solution.
    (Never bought Fujitsu-Siemens again.)

    The other one was a Nvidia Geforce 8400m GS inside my stepdads Acer Aspire.
    Luckily i could just replace it with a ATI Radeon HD 4570m so it still works to this date.

    But other than that its all been good. :D
     
    DEagleson, Apr 27, 2011
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  11. Jarinawer

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    9800m GTX -> 2008/9.... memory fail -> 2011 (last week)
     
    Jarinawer, Apr 29, 2011
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    sager 5670
    Nvidia 7950gtx

    Jan 2007
    April 2011
     
    rickster, Apr 29, 2011
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    brownstonemr Notebook Consultant

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    9800m gtx lasted about 1.5 years with no overclocking. So has been put in the oven a fair bit now to get the solder fixed.

    I have had 7900, 7950, and now 9800 cards do the same thing. I will not be buying any laptop with a nvidia card again. To spend a lot of money on products that only seem to work about 1.5 years is a joke. Gonna look into ATI which was the first notebook card I had.

    I also monitor the temps and clean the dust out regularly.
     
    brownstonemr, Apr 30, 2011
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  14. jaybee83

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    damn thats some pretty bad luck my friend! :D hope ill be spared by that! but im already looking at the game temps of my 485M at stock clocks with a frown on my face: the gpu reaches 97C while playing crysis, thats ridiculous! already changed the stock paste to OCZ freeze and repasted it 4 times, using different application techniques and amounts of paste, nothing helped so far. hopefully the IC diamond that i ordered will help out a bit.... any other suggestions maybe?

    cheers
     
    jaybee83, Apr 30, 2011
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  15. oile

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    Memory fail on my brand new FX3700M bought 21 feb 2011 -.-"
    Overclocked only a little bit.
     
    oile, May 5, 2011
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    None of my video cards have ever broken to be knowing from geforce 6200 to ati 6970.

    Had a lot of cards but i knew how to take care of them and know exactly when to cool them incase of damage i never let my cards reach over 90c if they do they get returned within 14 days of purchase.
     
    AsusS, May 5, 2011
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  17. Rebel0721

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    I had an 8800MGTX SLI die on me about a month ago, it lasted me about 4 years. I baked it back to life and sold my computer! :D
     
    Rebel0721, May 5, 2011
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