Repair or Sell my M570RU-U?

I recently got the bad news that my graphics card is fried, and it's about another 300-400 to replace it and it's pretty hard to find the part.

So I was wondering if anyone had any advice... I would not mind keeping the computer at all, but do you guys think it would be a better idea to just try and sell it? (It works fine for web browsing/word editing but it has other issues as one can imagine).

If I did sell it, does anyone know what I might be able to get for it?

Thanks all.

 

Give us some more info on the videocard and the problems.

 

Yet another 8800m gtx dying...I'm starting to wonder if they're crap b/c there are so many posts about them failing.

 

I'm not too worried, I still have a year and a few months left on the 3 year warranty I got, I actually hope it fails soon so I can get a new one!

 

Psst, are you sure you have a parts + labor warranty and not simply labor warranty?

To be honest, selling it might not get you as much as you hoped.

What are the specs on it?

If it's a WUXGA and a decent CPU,HDD,RAM and in excellent condition, probably about 400-550 at best [the gpu will cost about 250 or more), since one can buy a new one (8800M GTX) with no warranty from Ebay and upgrade it to a decent condition for about 800 [550 base price (after BCB + new CPU (150) new HDD (40) new RAM (60)]

 

I have a nVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX 256MB GDDR3 card in it, the inverter had fried first, and so we replaced that not noticing the graphics card, which was probably the thing that did it in in the first place.

Problems = can't run any games that use more advanced features, 3d et cetera, which was the main reason i got it.

Also, it just refreshes very slowly when you move anything... like just moving a window is a chore, or scrolling down while browsing the internet.

Lastly its got the lines in bios. But not in windows.

If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it. Thanks for replying.

 

Thats sad about the reselling price, but I mean I guess it's worth it to me to get some cash for it now, and get a new laptop with a new warranty et cetera.. anyone have any advice for selling it? Like should I go the ebay route or is there a better way to sell?

 

You can try posting here on notebookreview:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18

Theres also a subforum on pricechecks:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1062

Edit: If you live in the US, you can also try your luck with Craigslist. These are alternatives to ebay.

 

you can still get a 8800M GTX and have it in that notebook.

 

I was in the same boat. My vid card died for some random reason. I was out of parts warrenty, and when I sent it in, I was told it would cost 600 bucks to replace the graphics card. So I bought one off of someone on the forums, replaced it myself, and saved 300 bucks sans shipping.

 

it should be around 150 or so w/ bing cashback. Bake it if anything

 

Yes, it is a complete warranty, parts, labor and express shipping both ways.

 

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110456080818

Heres a link to a new 8800M GTX on ebay. The price is a bit steep though.

 

$625 is steep, but you can make an offer. I just made a $300 offer right now! Lol, he probably won't accept it though.

 

I wouldn't buy from that guy anyways, no actual picture of the gpu he's selling.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nvidia-512MB-Ge...emQQptZPCC_Video_TV_Cards?hash=item19b7b20369

heres a 9800m that will make your lappy work great.

 

Thanks for the links to parts. I think I am still going to just sell whats left of my laptop though. It's too much of an investment to keep this one going.

 

300-400 euros might aswell be spend on a new laptop. If it was like 100 euros i'd let someone repair it and definitly keep it as a backup.

 

Contact Nvidia to give a price to repair the vga, or try to get a other vga that fits. Maybe Nvidia can make you a deal on a 8800m or so!