Defective 9800m GT- Lawsuit against Nvidia

I have a Sager NP9262 with a fried 9800m GT in it. I have read that this series of cards is highly defective, as explained here:

Why nvidia's chips are defective- The Inquirer

Other laptop manufacturers have extended warranties on these models due to the class action lawsuit Nvidia lost regarding these GPUs. However Sager claims these GPUs are not "defective enough" to be covered. Given this model, the 9800m GT isn't manufactured anymore due to these defects, I have to question what constitutes being "defective enough"?

It seems ridiculous to me that it's going to cost me $600 to replace this defective card with a similar card (the 260m GTX) when these defective cards have 40% early life failures.

Has anybody encountered this before and had the replacement of their card covered?

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/com...rts-sale-cpu-gpus-lcd-ram-bd-battery-etc.html

Try this thread.

It has the 9800m GT at a really good price.

 

mine died in march this year and as ive advised everyone since i joined this forum, if you are spending thousands of pounds/dollars on an expensive laptop then you must take out the extra warranty which is peanuts compared to repair bills.
my 9800Gt was replaced the same day under warranty and its actually a faster card. my warranty ran out 2 weeks ago so i hope nothing else goes wrong with my m860tu but its lasted 3 years so far without any other problems.

 

Thanks Ryan, although I'm a bit leery of purchasing another 9800m GT due to the potential for defects.

Also does anyone know if the Quadro Fx 3700m, as seen here:

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Is a suitable alternative as well? If I recall, these were originally an option when purchasing the NP9262, although Sager is denying they would be compatible.

 

Sorry.. can't help you there as I really don't know, and I don't want to give false ideas.

Hopefully things go well.

 

HP 460734-001 nVidia Quadro FX 3700M 1GB MXM Card | eBay

Go for this HP FX3700m which is cheaper.

BTW: You will need a clevo vbios flashed
unless you get a clevo version FX3700M which is so rare that I've only seen it for once on ebay since last year.

 

When the 9800m GT in my M860TU died this summer I got an HP FX3700m. It had some crazy modded vBIOS on it and wouldn't load any drivers, so I just flashed a stock HP vBIOS onto it. Works like a champ, it's faster than my old 9800, and it actually runs cooler than the old card did since I replaced the thermal pads on the vram with copper shims and ICD.

 

Yep, I had a very high end HP laptop with the defective chip, almost all other models were covered under the class action except mine, even though it had the same chip! No recourse, dead $3000 laptop, no warranty.